Difference in seasonal variation of net precipitation between the Arctic and Antarctic regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2006, Pages

  Oshima, Kazuhiro ^a   Yamazaki, Koji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

CLIMATOLOGICAL SEASONAL VARIATION; POLEWARD TRANSIENT MOISTURE FLUX;

CLIMATOLOGY; MOISTURE;

EVAPORATION; MOISTURE FLUX; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; AUSTRAL WINTER; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EDDY ACTIVITY; MOISTURE FLUXES; MOISTURE GRADIENT; RELATIVE AMPLITUDE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 34447283400     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027389     Document Type: Article

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