Quasi-stationarity of centennial Northern Hemisphere midlatitude winter storm tracks

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 901-916

  Xia, Lan ^a   von Storch, Hans ^a   Feser, Frauke ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84881022555     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1543-5     Document Type: Article

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