Why is the North Atlantic block more frequent and long-lived during the negative NAO phase?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Luo, Dehai ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; VORTEX FLOW;

BLOCK-EDDY INTERACTION MODEL; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION (NAO);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 28944443925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022927     Document Type: Article

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