All-season climatology and variability of atmospheric river frequencies over the North Pacific

Journal of Climate

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 4885-4903

  Mundhenk, Bryan D ^a   Barnes, Elizabeth A ^a   Maloney, Eric D ^a  

^a Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Atm ocean structure phenomena; Climate variability; Eddies; Geographic location entity; North Pacific Ocean; Oscillations; Physical meteorology and climatology; Seasonal variability; Variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LOCATION; NASA;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EDDIES; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OSCILLATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; VARIABILITY;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EDDY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84977551923     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0655.1     Document Type: Article

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