The Aleutian low and winter climatic conditions in the Bering Sea. Part I: Classification

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 160-177

  Rodionov, Sergei N ^a   Overland, J E ^b   Bond, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; CYCLONIC ACTIVITIES; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE (SAT);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; WINTER;

BERING SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 13844292768     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3253.1     Document Type: Article

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