On the relationship between stratospheric structure and tropospheric blocking patterns

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1991, 2013, Pages

  Cullen, M J P ^a   Ngan, K ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blocking; Stratosphere Troposphere Coupling; Stratospheric Vortex

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING;

BLOCKING; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING; SEASONAL FORECASTING; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84876572434     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2012.0180     Document Type: Article

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