Patterns of wintertime jet stream variability and their relation to the storm tracks

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1361-1381

  Athanasiadis, Panos J ^a   Wallace, John M ^a   Wettstein, Justin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Empirical orthogonal function; Jets; North Atlantic Oscillation; Pacific North American pattern; Storm tracks; Teleconnections; Winter cool season

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; STORM TRACK; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

BAROCLINIC MODE; EDDY; JET STREAM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); STORM TRACK; TELECONNECTION; WIND FIELD; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77955567593     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3270.1     Document Type: Article

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