Asian jet waveguide and a downstream extension of the North Atlantic Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4674-4691

  Watanabe, Masahiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; JETS; LOW PASS FILTERS; OSCILLATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVES;

ATMOPSPHERIC FIELDS; ATMOSPHERIC FIELDS; BAROTROPIC MODELS; MEDITERRANEAN CONVERGENCE (MC);

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 12344303499     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3228.1     Document Type: Article

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