Relationship between Ural-Siberian Blocking and the East Asian winter monsoon in relation to the Arctic oscillation and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4242-4257

  Cheung, Ho Nam ^a   Zhou, Wen ^a   Mok, Hing Yim ^b   Wu, Man Chi ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG OBSERVATORY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; BOREAL WINTERS; COMBINED EFFECT; EAST ASIA; EAST ASIAN WINTER MONSOON; ENSO EVENTS; IN-PHASE; MERIDIONAL FLOWS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OUT OF PHASE; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN HIGHS; TELECONNECTIONS; WAVE TRAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OSCILLATING FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ADVECTION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BOREAL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

SIBERIA; URALS;

EID: 84865190582     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00225.1     Document Type: Article

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