Multidecadal and interannual changes of stationary Rossby waves

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2157-2173

  Freitas, Ana Carolina Vasques ^a   Brahmananda Rao, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Climate change; El Ni o Southern Oscillation; North Atlantic Oscillation; Pacific Decadal Oscillation; Stationary kinetic energy; Stationary wavenumber; Waveguides; Zonal wind

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE SHIFTS; EAST ASIA; GENERAL CIRCULATION; INTERANNUAL; JET STREAMS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; REANALYSIS; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGES; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL JET; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; KINETIC ENERGY; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KINETIC ENERGY; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STANDING WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 83255176904     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.894     Document Type: Article

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