Extreme midlatitude cyclones and their implications for precipitation and wind speed extremes in simulations of the Maunder Minimum versus present day conditions

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 409-423

  Raible, C C ^a   Yoshimori, M ^a,b   Stocker, T F ^a,c   Casty, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Center for Environmental Prediction   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE; BAROCLINIC MODE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CYCLONE; EXTREME EVENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33846311765     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0188-7     Document Type: Article

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