A seven-year study of oxygen isotopes in daily precipitation at a site close to the Arctic Circle, Tustervatn, Norway: Trajectory analysis and links with the North Atlantic Oscillation

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 5101-5109

  Theakstone, Wilfred H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic; Cluster analysis; North Atlantic Oscillation; Oxygen isotopes; Precipitation; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS TRAJECTORIES; ARCTIC; ARCTIC CIRCLE; ICELANDICS; NAO INDEX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE AREA; SOUTHEAST GREENLAND; TASIILAQ; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT ROUTES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CATCHMENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; TRAJECTORIES; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ISOTOPE; OXYGEN 18;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

AIR; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GREENLAND; LATITUDE; MOISTURE; NORWAY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION;

NORDLAND; NORWAY; TUSTERVATN;

EID: 79960834957     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: 18732844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.034     Document Type: Article

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