Northern hemisphere storm tracks in strong AO anomaly winters

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 153-159

  Nie, Ji ^a   Wang, Peng ^a   Yang, Wenchang ^a   Tan, Benkui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; Baroclinic wave guide; Storm tracks

Indexed keywords

EID: 81455146919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.186     Document Type: Article

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