An Arctic inversion climatology based on the European Centre Reanalysis ERA-40

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 589-600

  Wetzel, Christian ^a   Brümmer, Burghard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; ARCTIC BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INVERSION CLIMATOLOGY; LONG-TERM TREND; REANALYSIS; SPACE AND TIME; TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84855514960     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0295     Document Type: Article

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