Predictability of the downward migration of the Northern Annular Mode: A case study for January 2003

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 861-870

  Mukougawa, Hitoshi ^a   Hirooka, Toshihiko ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PREDICTION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TROPOPAUSE; WARMING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 39849095440     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85.861     Document Type: Article

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