Dynamics of landfalling atmospheric rivers over the North Pacific in 30 years of MERRA reanalysis

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 7133-7150

  Payne, Ashley E ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFALLING; NORTH PACIFIC; REANALYSIS;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; JET STREAM; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE FLUX; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTH ISLAND; WEST COAST [SOUTH ISLAND];

EID: 84907059445     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00034.1     Document Type: Article

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