Influence of the Aleutian-Icelandic low seesaw and ENSO onto the stratosphere in ensemble winter hindcasts

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 817-825

  Orsolini, Yvan J ^a   Kvamstø, Nils Gunnar ^b   Kindem, Ina T ^c   Honda, Meiji ^d   Nakamura, Hishashi ^d,e  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; PLANETARY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 58049091686     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.817     Document Type: Article

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