Intercomparison of the northern hemisphere winter mid-latitude atmospheric variability of the IPCC models

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 28, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 829-848

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34247581218     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-006-0213-x     Document Type: Article

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