Are the winters 2010 and 2012 archetypes exhibiting extreme opposite behavior of the north atlantic jet stream

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3626-3640

  Santos, Jõao A ^a   Woollings, Tim ^b   Pinto, Joaquim G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Blocking; Interannual variability; Jets; North Atlantic Ocean; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BLOCKING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; WAVEBREAKING;

CLIMATOLOGY; JETS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE;

EID: 84884526994     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00024.1     Document Type: Article

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