Simultaneous Atlantic-Pacific blocking and the Northern Annular Mode

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1635-1646

  Woollings, Tim J ^a   Hoskins, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rossby wave breaking; Stratosphere; Westward propagation

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ATLANTIC; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODES; NORTHERN CANADA; PACIFIC BLOCKING; PACIFIC SECTORS; PHYSICAL LINKS; RARE EVENTS; ROSSBY WAVE-BREAKING; STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTICES; TROPOSPHERIC WAVES; WESTWARD PROPAGATION;

LIQUID WAVES;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 57349145894     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.310     Document Type: Article

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