The shift of the northern node of the NAO and cyclonic rossby wave breaking

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7973-7982

  Wang, Yi Hui ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decadal variability; North Atlantic Oscillation; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

DECADAL TIMESCALE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GREENLAND; HIGH LATITUDES; MAXIMUM FREQUENCY; MEAN FLOW; NAO INDEX; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; ROSSBY WAVE; SUB-DOMAINS; WAVEBREAKING;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

CYCLONE; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE BREAKING;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84868626098     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00596.1     Document Type: Article

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