Tracking polar lows in CLM

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 445-453

  Zahn, Matthias ^a,b   von Storch, Hans ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; REMOTE SENSING; STORMS; WIND;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLONE; DETECTION METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 58049113268     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0317     Document Type: Article

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