Blocking episodes in the Southern Hemisphere: Impact on the climate of adjacent continental areas

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 1941-1962

  Mendes, Monica Cristina Damião ^a   Trigo, Ricardo Machado ^a,b   Cavalcanti, Iracema F A ^c   DaCamara, Carlos C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Australia; Blocking; Climate impacts; Precipitation; South America; Southern Hemisphere; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CLIMATE EFFECT; JET STREAM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 58149100229     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0409-4     Document Type: Article

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