A preliminary study on the relationship between Arctic Oscillation and daily SLP variance in the Northern Hemisphere during wintertime

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-327

  Gong, Daoyi ^a,b   Drange, Helge ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Northern Hemisphere; Sea level pressure (SLP); Synoptic variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344376897     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918745     Document Type: Article

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