Atmospheric circulation and cyclone frequency variations linked to the primary modes of Greenland snow accumulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Rogers, Jeffrey C ^a   Bathke, Deborah J ^a,b   Mosley Thompson, Ellen ^a,b   Wang, Sheng Hung ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1620 Global Change: Climate dynamics (3309); 1827 Hydrology: Glaciology (1863); 1863 Hydrology: Snow and ice (1827); 3309 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3349 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Polar meteorology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; CYCLONE FREQUENCY; LEE CYCLONES; WEST-CENTRAL GREENLAND ACCUMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLONE; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; GREENLAND; WORLD;

EID: 16644378923     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021048     Document Type: Article

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