Abnormal meridional temperature gradient and its relation to the Okhotsk high

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1399-1415

  Tachibana, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Iwamoto, Takuya ^b   Ogi, Masayo ^c   Watanabe, Yohei ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KHABAROVSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; OKHOTSK; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EID: 11244316252     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.1399     Document Type: Article

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