Spatial pattern and zonal shift of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Part II: Numerical experiments

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2827-2853

  Luo, Dehai ^a   Zhong, Linhao ^b   Ren, Rongcai ^b   Wang, Chunzai ^c  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; North Atlantic Oscillation; Numerical analysis modeling; Rossby waves; Storm tracks; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; ROSSBY WAVE; STORM TRACKS; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; OCEAN CURRENTS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; STORMS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

EDDY; JET; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; STORM TRACK; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

EID: 77958516918     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3340.1     Document Type: Article

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