Exploring links between Arctic amplification and mid-latitude weather

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 959-964

  Screen, James A ^a,b   Simmonds, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic amplification; circulation; mid latitude weather; Rossby wave

Indexed keywords

FURTHER WORKS; MID-LATITUDE WEATHER; MIDLATITUDES; PLANETARY WAVES; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; ROSSBY WAVE; WEATHER EXTREMES;

BOILER CIRCULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS;

AMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; AMPLITUDE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PLANETARY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 84876797173     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50174     Document Type: Article

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