Wave-breaking characteristics of midlatitude blocking

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 666, 2012, Pages 1285-1296

  Masato, G ^a   Hoskins, B J ^b   Woollings, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blocking types; Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BLOCKING TYPES; COLD AIR MASS; CYCLONIC TYPES; JET STREAMS; KEY PROCESS; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEANIC BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; ROSSBY WAVE; WARM AIR; WAVEBREAKING; WESTERN SIDE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

LIQUID WAVES;

AIR MASS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; JET STREAM; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84864305751     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.990     Document Type: Article

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