Springtime coupled modes of regional wind in the Iberian Peninsula and large-scale variability patterns

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 880-895

  Martin M L ^a   Valero, F ^b   Morata, A ^c   Luna, M Y ^c   Pascual, A ^c   Santos Munoz D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Agencia Estatal de Meteorología ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Iberian peninsula; Singular value decomposition; Teleconnection patterns; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS; COMPOSITE MAPS; COUPLED MODE; DOWN-SCALING; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; IBERIAN PENINSULA; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; REANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELECONNECTION PATTERNS; VARIABILITY PATTERNS; WIND ANOMALIES; WIND CORRELATION; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; WIND EFFECTS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SPRING (SEASON); TELECONNECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 79954588339     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2127     Document Type: Article

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