Is there a statistical connection between stratospheric sudden warming and tropospheric blocking events?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1442-1454

  Taguchi, Masakazu ^a  

^a AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FAULT DETECTION; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); DOMINANT MODES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (NH); RE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMING; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMING (SSW);

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; BOOTSTRAPPING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 45849153129     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2363.1     Document Type: Article

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