Atmosphere and marginal-sea interaction leading to an interannual variation in cold-air outbreak activity over the Japan Sea

Journal of Climate

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5707-5714

  Isobe, Atsuhiko ^a   Beardsley, Robert C ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; SEA LEVEL; WIND;

SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVELET SPECTRA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR MASS; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; COLD AIR; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 37549006792     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1779.1     Document Type: Article

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