Icelandic climate and North Atlantic cyclones in ERA-40 reanalyses

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-23

  Schneidereit, Andrea ^a   Blender, Richard ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^a   Lunkeit, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; WIND;

CORRELATION; CYCLONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SURFACE PRESSURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); GREENLAND; ICELAND;

EID: 33947395684     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0187     Document Type: Article

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