Projected changes in synoptic weather patterns over New Zealand examined through self-organizing maps

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3934-3948

  Gibson, Peter B ^a   Perkins Kirkpatrick, Sarah E ^a   Renwick, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

circulation; climate change; climate impacts; CMIP5; projections; weather typing

Indexed keywords

BOILER CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; SEA LEVEL; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE IMPACTS; CMIP5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; PROJECTIONS; SYNOPTIC WEATHER PATTERNS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84956654758     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4604     Document Type: Article

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