The springtime North Asia cyclone activity index and the Southern Annular Mode

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 673-679

  Yue, Xu ^a,b   Wang, Huijun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric general circulation; North Asia cyclone; Southern Annular Mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349103801     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0673-5     Document Type: Article

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