Evaluation of northern hemisphere blocking climatology in the global environment multiscale model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 707-727

  Dunn Sigouin, Etienne ^a   Son, Seok Woo ^a,c   Lin, Hai ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Blocking; Climatology

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING; DETECTION ALGORITHM; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MULTISCALE MODELS; HIGH-FREQUENCY EDDIES; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; MULTISCALE MODELS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; EDDY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; STANDING WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84874958744     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00134.1     Document Type: Article

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