The connection between the 500 HPA geopotential height anomalies over Europe and the abnormal weather in Eastern Mediterranean during winter 2006

International Journal of Meteorology

Volumn 32, Issue 324, 2007, Pages 335-348

  Hafez, Y Y ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Geopotential height; Meridonal wind; Zonal wind

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CORRELATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SIBERIA;

EID: 38149057229     PISSN: 17482992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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