A climatology based on reanalysis of baroclinic developmental regions in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1146, Issue , 2008, Pages 235-255

  De La Torre, Laura ^a,b   Nieto, Raquel ^a,c   Noguerol, Marta ^a   Añel, Juan Antonio ^a,b   Gimeno, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Baroclinic development; Fronts; Geopotential tendency equation; Omega equation

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ASTRONOMY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL WATERS; COLD AIR; CONFERENCE PAPER; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDICTION; THERMAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 57249086532     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1446.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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