Influence of the circumglobal wave-train on European summer precipitation

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 503-515

  Saeed, Sajjad ^a   Van Lipzig, Nicole ^a   Müller, Wolfgang A ^b   Saeed, Fahad ^c   Zanchettin, Davide ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circumglobal wave train; European summer precipitation; Summer North Atlantic Oscillation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SUMMER; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 84906100419     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1871-0     Document Type: Article

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