On the development of strong ridge episodes over the eastern North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Santos, João A ^a   Pinto, Joaquim G ^b   Ulbrich, Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ANOMALIES; GEOPOTENTIALS; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH PACIFIC; QUASI-STATIONARITY; TROPOSPHERIC WAVES;

DROUGHT;

ANTICYCLONE; GEOPOTENTIAL; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 71949094723     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039086     Document Type: Article

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