Behaviour of the centres of action above the atlantic since 1881. Part I: characteristics of seasonal and interannual variability

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-22

  Machel H ^a   Kapala, A ^a   Flohn, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Azores High; Central pressure; Centres of action; Iceland Low; Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ); Latitudinal and longitudinal position; Linear trends; Long term variations; North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO); South Atlantic Subtropical High

Indexed keywords

EID: 11744281343     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0088(199801)18:1<1::AID-JOC225>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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