East Asian dust storm and weather disturbance: Possible links to the Arctic Oscillation

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1379-1396

  Gong, Dao Yi ^a   Mao, Rui ^a   Fan, Yi Da ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Disaster Reduction Center of China   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Dust storm; East Asia; Weather disturbance

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; KINETIC ENERGY; OSCILLATIONS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION (AO); CLIMATE TELECONNECTIONS; COLD-HIGH FREQUENCY; SPRING DUST STORM FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; WEATHER DISTURBANCE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; DUST STORM;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33746903102     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1324     Document Type: Article

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