Does the subtropical jet catalyze the midlatitude atmospheric regimes?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Ruti, Paolo M ^a   Lucarini, Valerio ^b   Dell'Aquila, Alessandro ^a   Calmanti, Sandro ^a   Speranza, Antonio ^b  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; JETS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; NON-LINEAR OROGRAPHIC THEORY; PALNETARY WAVES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OROGRAPHY; PLANETARY WAVE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33646452298     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024620     Document Type: Article

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