Using anticyclonicity to determine the position of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies: Implications for the LGM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  Wardle, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; STATISTICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ANTICYCLONICITY; HEMISPHERE; ANTICYCLONE SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MERIDIONAL DISPLACEMENTS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VORTEX TRACKING; WINTER SEASONS;

STORMS; CLIMATE MODELS;

ANTICYCLONE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; QUATERNARY; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND;

EID: 1542545746     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL018792     Document Type: Article

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