Toward a multi-decadal climatology of north pacific polar lows employing dynamical downscaling

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-301

  Chen, Fei ^a   Geyer, Beate ^a   Zahn, Matthias ^b   Von Storch, Hans ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Downscaling; North pacific; Polar low; Regional climate modeling; Tracking algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DECADAL VARIATION; DOWNSCALING; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TRACKING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BERING SEA; GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 84861812469     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2011.11.02.01(A)     Document Type: Article

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