Heat and cold waves on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea

Baltica

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-54

  Tomczyk, Arkadiusz Marek ^a   Bednorz, Ewa ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Air masses; Baltic Sea coast; Circulation; Warm and cold waves

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COASTAL ZONE; COLD AIR; HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84931825487     PISSN: 00673064     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5200/baltica.2014.27.05     Document Type: Article

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