Atmospheric blocking and its relation to jet changes in a future climate

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 2643-2654

  de Vries, Hylke ^a   Woollings, Tim ^b   Anstey, James ^c   Haarsma, Reindert J ^a   Hazeleger, Wilco ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric blocking; Climate change; Jet strength

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AUTUMN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; JET FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WINTER; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84886717130     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1699-7     Document Type: Article

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