Relationships between cut-off lows and the semiannual and southern oscillations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1473-1487

  Favre, Alice ^a   Hewitson, Bruce ^a   Tadross, Mark ^a   Lennard, Christopher ^a   Cerezo Mota, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cut off low; ENSO; Semiannual oscillation; Southern hemisphere

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; AUTUMN; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOPOTENTIAL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; JET STREAM; LA NINA; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 84859007819     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1030-4     Document Type: Article

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