Extreme cold winter temperatures in Europe under the influence of North Atlantic atmospheric blocking

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 5899-5913

  Sillmann, Jana ^a,b   Mischa, Croci Maspoli ^c   Kallache, Malaak ^d,e   Katz, Richard W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e Climpact   (France)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocking; Europe; Extreme events; North Atlantic Ocean; Statistical techniques; Temperature

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING; EUROPE; EXTREME EVENTS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE;

EID: 83755186709     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4075.1     Document Type: Article

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