Central European prEcipitation and temperature extremes in relation to large-scale atmospheric circulation types

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 397-410

  Jacobeit, Jucundus ^a   Rathmann, Joachim ^a   Philipp, Aandreas ^a   Jones, Philip D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CENTRAL EUROPE; CHANGING CLIMATE; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; FREQUENCY CHANGES; HEAVY PRECIPITATION; LOW PRESSURES; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; POSITIVE MODE; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; WEAK CORRELATION; WINTER PRECIPITATION; ZONAL PATTERNS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TIME SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXTREME EVENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

EID: 77949355233     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2009/0390     Document Type: Article

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