Quantifying the relevance of atmospheric blocking for co-located temperature extremes in the Northern Hemisphere on (sub-)daily time scales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Pfahl, S ^a   Wernli, H ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; GLOBAL WARMING;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CO-LOCATED; DAILY TEMPERATURES; DRIVING MECHANISM; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SCANDINAVIA; SIBERIA; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE EXTREMES; TIME-SCALES; WARM TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE FORCING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIMESCALE;

CANADA; SCANDINAVIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 84863305772     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052261     Document Type: Article

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