On the dynamics of persistent states and their secular trends in the waveguides of the Southern Hemisphere troposphere

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 46, Issue 11-12, 2016, Pages 3567-3597

  O’Kane, Terence J ^a   Risbey, James S ^a   Monselesan, Didier P ^a   Horenko, Illia ^b   Franzke, Christian L E ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric teleconnections; Baroclinic instability; Regimes; Rossby waves; Secular trends; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 84939241392     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2786-8     Document Type: Article

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