Historical trends in the jet streams

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Archer, Cristina L ^a   Caldeira, Ken ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; RIVERS;

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE]; DATA-SETS; DRIVING FACTORS; JET STREAMS; MID-LATITUDES; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (NH); POLAR JET; RE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (SH); WEIGHTED AVERAGING;

JETS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; JET STREAM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 48249084235     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033614     Document Type: Article

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