Atmospheric circulations associated to the interannual variability of cumulonimbus cloud frequency in the southern part of Romania

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 920-928

  Paraschivescu, M ^a,b   Rambu, N ^b,c   Stefan, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c Climed Norad   (Romania)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation variability; Canonical correlation analysis; Cumulonimbus

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION VARIABILITY; CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COLD AIR; CUMULONIMBUS; DEEP CONVECTION; FLASH FLOOD; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MOIST AIR; ROMANIA; SEVERE WEATHER; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND GUST;

ADVECTION; CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLIMATOLOGY;

ADVECTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CONVECTION; CUMULONIMBUS;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84859977067     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.2316     Document Type: Article

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