Weather chains during the 2013/2014 winter and their significance for seasonal prediction

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 833-837

  Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DROUGHT; EPISODIC EVENT; FLOW PATTERN; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSIENT FLOW; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84945897648     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2561     Document Type: Article

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