Antarctic Peninsula mesoscale cyclone variability and climatic impacts influenced by the SAM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lubin, Dan ^a   Wittenmyer, Robert A ^a,b   Bromwich, David H ^c   Marshall, Gareth J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

MESOSCALE CYCLONE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ANNULAR MODE INDEX; STORM TRACKS;

STORMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CYCLONE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WESTERLY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 40849126798     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032170     Document Type: Article

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