Arctic Oscillation and the autumn/winter snow depth over the Tibetan Plateau

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 14, 2008, Pages

  Lü, Jun Mei ^b,d   Ju, Jian Hua ^a   Kim, Seong Joong ^b   Ren, Ju Zhang ^c   Zhu, Yu Xiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^b Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI)   (South Korea)

^c Yunnan Institute of Meteorology ^*  (China)

^d STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INTERDECADAL; NEGATIVE PHASE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REGIME SHIFT; ROSSBY WAVE; SNOW DEPTHS; STATIONARY WAVES; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-SCALES; WINTER SEASONS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DECADAL VARIATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STRATOSPHERE; TIMESCALE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 71949086743     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009567     Document Type: Article

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