Atmospheric circulation associated with anomalous variations in North Pacific wintertime blocking

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1049-1064

  Huang, Fei ^a,b   Zhou, Faxiu ^a   England, Matthew H ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; METEOROLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION; STRONG BLOCKING WINTERS (SBW);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; HADLEY CELL; WALKER CIRCULATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 2442648745     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<1049:ACAWAV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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