Influence of synoptic weather patterns on solar irradiance variability in northern Europe

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 4229-4250

  Parding, Kajsa M ^a   Liepert, Beate G ^b   Hinkelman, Laura M ^c   Ackerman, Thomas P ^c   Dagestad, Knut Frode ^a   Olseth, Jan Asle ^d  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean structure Phenomena; Climate variability; Decadal variability; Multidecadal variability; Physical meteorology and climatology; Shortwave radiation; Synoptic scale processes; Trends; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DECADAL VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SYNOPTIC-SCALE PROCESS; TRENDS; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLOUD COVER; DECADAL VARIATION; IRRADIANCE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84971426740     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0476.1     Document Type: Article

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