The behaviors of optimal precursors during wintertime Eurasian blocking onset

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1174-1184

  Jiang, Zhina ^a   Wang, Donghai ^a  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

nonlinear optimization problem; self interaction; wave spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867782916     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-012-1102-3     Document Type: Article

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