Behaviour of the winter North Atlantic eddy-driven jet stream in the CMIP3 integrations

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 995-1007

  Hannachi, Abdel ^a   Barnes, Elizabeth A ^b   Woollings, Tim ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE FORCING; EDDY; JET STREAM; SEASONAL VARIATION; WIND VELOCITY; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84881022680     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1560-4     Document Type: Article

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