Decline in wintertime air-mass transition frequencies in the USA

Climate Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 121-136

  Hondula, David M ^a   Davis, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air mass; Circumpolar vortex; Climate change; Climate variability; Frontal climatology; Spatial synoptic classification

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; CIRCUMPOLAR VORTEX; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; FRONTAL CLIMATOLOGY; SPATIAL SYNOPTIC CLASSIFICATION;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEW POINT; FRONTOGENESIS; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VORTEX FLOW; WIND PROFILE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79956355257     PISSN: 0936577X     EISSN: 16161572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/cr00971     Document Type: Article

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