Variability in wintertime position and strength of the North Pacific jet stream as represented by re-analysis data

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 851-862

  Barton, Neil P ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Jet stream; North Pacific Ocean; Winter

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; CURRENT THEORIES; DATA SETS; JET STREAM; JET STREAMS; KEY DETERMINANTS; LONGITUDINAL RESOLUTION; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NCEP/NCAR; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; REANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; WESTERN REGION; WINTER; WINTER PRECIPITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

JETS;

CLIMATOLOGY; JET STREAM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WINTER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 67649979956     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1750     Document Type: Article

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