Relationship between springtime surface temperature and early summer blocking activity over Siberia

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 261-267

  Arai, Miki ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SIBERIA; WORLD;

EID: 21444440054     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.83.261     Document Type: Article

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