Close interactions between the Antarctic cyclone budget and large-scale atmospheric circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3237-3241

  Uotila, Petteri ^a,b   Vihma, Timo ^a   Tsukernik, Maria ^c  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic; cyclones

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC; ANTARCTIC COASTS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CYCLOGENESIS; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84880551093     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50560     Document Type: Article

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