The climatology and characteristics of Rossby wave packets using a feature-based tracking technique

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3528-3548

  Souders, Matthew B ^a   Colle, Brian A ^a   Chang, Edmund K M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE-BASED TRACKING;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84907438851     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00371.1     Document Type: Article

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