Large-scale flow and the long-lasting blocking high over Russia: Summer 2010

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2967-2981

  Schneidereit, Andrea ^a   Schubert, Silke ^b   Vargin, Pavel ^c   Lunkeit, Frank ^b   Zhu, Xiuhua ^b   Peters, Dieter H W ^a   Fraedrich, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Blocking; Eddies; La Nina; Stationary waves; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING; EDDIES; LA NINA; STATIONARY WAVES; TELECONNECTIONS;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANTICYCLONE; EDDY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FLOW STRUCTURE; STANDING WAVE; TELECONNECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84865960290     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00249.1     Document Type: Article

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