A synoptic analysis of the interannual variability of winter cyclone activity in the Aleutian low region

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1523-1538

  Zhu, Xiaojie ^a,b   Sun, Jilin ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^b   Liu, Qinyu ^a   Martin, Jonathan E ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; WIND STRESS;

ALEUTIAN LOW; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; STATIONARY ROSSBY WAVENUMBER; SYSTEM-CENTERED LAGRANGIAN METHOD;

STORMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CYCLONE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOPOTENTIAL; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; ROSSBY NUMBER; ROSSBY WAVE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34247617280     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4077.1     Document Type: Article

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