Is the storminess in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis really inconsistent with observations? A reply to the comment by Krueger et al. (2013b)

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 42, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 1113-1125

  Wang, Xiaolan L ^a   Feng, Y ^a   Compo, G P ^b,c   Zwiers, F W ^d   Allan, R J ^e   Swail, V R ^a   Sardeshmukh, P D ^b,c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyclone activity; Geostrophic wind extremes; Low frequency variability; Trend analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894927339     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1828-3     Document Type: Article

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