Circulation indices of the Aleutian low pressure system: Definitions and relationships to climate anomalies in the northern hemisphere

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1111-1118

  Wang, Panxing ^a   Wang, Julian X L ^b   Zhi, Hai ^a   Wang, Yukun ^a   Sun, Xiaojuan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

Author keywords

circulation indices; climate anomalies; definitions and relationships; the Aleutian Low

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865656076     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1196-7     Document Type: Article

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