Winter "weekend effect" in southern Europe and its connections with periodicities in atmospheric dynamics

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Sanchez Lorenzo, A ^a   Calbo J ^b   Martin Vide, J ^a   Garcia Manuel, A ^a   Garcia Soriano G ^c   Beck, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; WATER LEVELS;

ANTHROPOGENIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS; LOCAL EFFECTS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WINTER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53749083442     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034160     Document Type: Article

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