Remote ENSO influence on Mediterranean sky conditions during late summer and autumn: Evidence for a slowly evolving atmospheric bridge

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 602 PART A, 2004, Pages 2409-2422

  Park, Sungsu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Rossby wave

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; RAIN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; SEASONALITY; WEATHER;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 5444240598     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.62     Document Type: Article

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