Key dynamical features of the 2005/06 European winter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 664-678

  Croci Maspoli, Mischa ^a,b   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; DIABATIC; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; INTERANNUAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; LONG LASTING; NEGATIVE PHASE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; WARM SURFACE; WESTERN ATLANTIC;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIABATIC PROCESS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 68249159680     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2533.1     Document Type: Article

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