Variability of the North Atlantic summer storm track: Mechanisms and impacts on European climate

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Dong, Buwen ^a   Sutton, Rowan T ^a   Woollings, Tim ^b   Hodges, Kevin ^b  

^a University of Birmingham   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation; Atlantic storm track variability; European summer climate; ocean atmosphere interactions; precipitation frequency; precipitation intensity; summer North Atlantic oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; PRECIPITATION FREQUENCY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; SUMMER CLIMATE;

STORMS;

ATLANTIC MULTIDECADAL OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATOLOGY; EKMAN TRANSPORT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STORM TRACK; SUMMER; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); ATLANTIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84885443313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/3/034037     Document Type: Article

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