Intraseasonal and interannual variability in north american storm tracks and its relationship to equatorial pacific variability

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3610-3625

  Grise, Kevin M ^a   Son, Seok Woo ^b   Gyakum, John R ^c  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic Oscillation; ENSO; Extratropical cyclones; Madden Julian oscillation; Pacific North American pattern oscillation; Synoptic climatology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ENSO; EXTRATROPICAL CYCLONES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; NORTH AMERICAN; SYNOPTIC CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CYCLONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84884935880     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00322.1     Document Type: Article

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