Effects of synoptic-scale control on long-term declining trends of summer fog frequency over the pacific side of Hokkaido Island

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2226-2242

  Sugimoto, Shiori ^a   Sato, Tomonori ^a   Nakamura, Kazuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; CLIMATOLOGICAL FACTORS; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION PATTERNS; PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYERS; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; STABLE STRATIFICATION; SYNOPTIC CIRCULATIONS;

INVERSION LAYERS; SHRINKAGE;

FOG;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; FOG; SUMMER; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VISIBILITY;

HOKKAIDO; JAPAN; KUSHIRO; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84886681867     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0192.1     Document Type: Article

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