Role of quasiresonant planetary wave dynamics in recent boreal spring-to-autumn extreme events

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 25, 2016, Pages 6862-6867

  Petoukhov, Vladimir ^a   Petri, Stefan ^a   Rahmstorf, Stefan ^a   Coumou, Dim ^a   Kornhuber, Kai ^a   Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Heat waves; Planetary waves; Waveguides; Weather extremes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; DYNAMICS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASIRESONANT AMPLIFICATION; SPRING; WEATHER;

EID: 84975705936     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606300113     Document Type: Article

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