Bidimensional diagnostics, variability, and trends of northern hemisphere blocking

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 6496-6509

  Davini, Paolo ^a,b   Cagnazzo, Chiara ^a,c   Gualdi, Silvio ^a,d   Navarra, Antonio ^a,d  

^a CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blocking; Climatology; Europe; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING; DATA SETS; EASTERN SIBERIA; EUROPE; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GREENLAND; JET STREAMS; LOW LATITUDES; MIDLATITUDES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PACIFIC OCEAN; REANALYSIS; SCANDINAVIA; WAVEBREAKING;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; GEOPOTENTIAL; JET STREAM; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE BREAKING;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EUROPE; GREENLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PORTUGAL; SIBERIA;

EID: 84864451551     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00032.1     Document Type: Article

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