Recent global trends in atmospheric fronts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2011, Pages

  Berry, Gareth ^a   Jakob, Christian ^a   Reeder, Michael ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC FRONTS; CLIMATE CHANGE PREDICTION; DATA SETS; DETECTION METHODS; GLOBAL TRENDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OBJECTIVE METHODS; REANALYSIS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STORM TRACK; SYNOPTIC WEATHER CONDITIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA SET; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; STORM TRACK; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPORAL PERIOD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 81155138230     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049481     Document Type: Article

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