Twentieth century North Atlantic jet variability

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 680, 2014, Pages 783-791

  Woollings, Tim ^a   Czuchnicki, Camelia ^a   Franzke, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate noise; Jet variability; NAO; Reanalysis; Regime behaviour

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE NOISE; DECADAL VARIABILITY; HISTORICAL RECORDS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NAO; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; REANALYSIS; REGIME BEHAVIOUR;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DECADAL VARIATION; JET STREAM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84899479060     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2197     Document Type: Article

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