Arctic amplification enhanced by latent energy transport of atmospheric planetary waves

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 698, 2016, Pages 2046-2054

  Graversen, Rune G ^a   Burtu, Mattias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arctic amplification; cyclones; energy transport; planetary waves

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; DECOMPOSITION; STORMS;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC WARMING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; ENERGY TRANSPORT; FOURIER DECOMPOSITION; PLANETARY WAVES; TRANSIENT WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CYCLONE; PLANETARY WAVE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84982921509     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2802     Document Type: Article

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