Southern hemisphere winter cold-air mesocyclones: Climatic environments and associations with teleconnections

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 383-408

  Claud, C ^a   Carleton, A M ^b   Duchiron, B ^a   Terray, P ^c  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cold air mesocyclones; Composite analysis; ENSO; SAM; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC REGION; COLD AIR; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FORECASTING METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TELECONNECTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 67649208353     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0468-5     Document Type: Article

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