Long-term trends of synoptic-scale breaking Rossby waves in the Northern Hemisphere between 1958 and 2001

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1551-1562

  Isotta, F ^a   Martius, O ^a   Sprenger, M ^a   Schwierz, C ^a,b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breaking Rossby waves; Ozone; Potential vorticity; Seasonal trend decomposition; Streamer; Trend; Wind velocity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GASES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT FLOW; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

BREAKING ROSSBY WAVES; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SEASONAL-TREND DECOMPOSITION; STREAMER; TREND; WIND VELOCITY;

OZONE;

BREAKING WAVE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 55349145484     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1647     Document Type: Article

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