A 15-year climatology of warm conveyor belts

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 218-237

  Eckhardt, Sabine ^a   Stohl, Andreas ^a   Wernli, Heini ^b   James, Paul ^a   Forster, Caroline ^a   Spichtinger, Nicole ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TRAJECTORIES; TROPOSPHERE;

CONVEYOR BELTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WARM FRONT;

EID: 1442266686     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0218:AYCOWC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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