Understanding the anomalously cold European winter of 2005/06 using relaxation experiments

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3157-3174

  Jung, T ^a   Palmer, T N ^a   Rodwell, M J ^a   Serrar, S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; FORECAST ERRORS; ICE FIELDS; INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEMS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTH AMERICA; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; POLAR VORTEX; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EUROPE;

EID: 77955566913     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3258.1     Document Type: Article

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