Van Bebber's cyclone tracks at 700 hPa in the Eastern Alps for 1961-2002 and their comparison to Circulation Type Classifications

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 459-473

  Hofstätter, Michael ^a   Chimani, Barbara ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND PASS; BRIER SKILL SCORES; CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; CENTRAL EUROPE; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CIRCULATION TYPE CLASSIFICATIONS; CYCLONE TRACKS; ERA INTERIMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; LARGE-SCALE PRECIPITATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR; PRESSURE LEVEL; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; REANALYSIS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION;

CYCLONE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

EID: 84874592358     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2012/0473     Document Type: Article

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