Changes in the metastability of the midlatitude southern hemisphere circulation and the utility of nonstationary cluster analysis and split-flow blocking indices as diagnostic tools

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 824-842

  O'kane, Terence J ^a   Risbey, James S ^a   Franzke, Christian ^b   Horenko, Illia ^c   Monselesan, Didier P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Annular mode; Blocking; Nonlinear dynamics; Time series; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNULAR MODE; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECTS; BLOCKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE CIRCULATION; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; PRODUCTION PLATFORMS; TIME SERIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME SERIES; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84874954196     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-028.1     Document Type: Article

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