Persistent Extratropical Regimes and Climate Extremes

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 115-124

  Hoskins, Brian ^a,b   Woollings, Tim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic warming; Blocking; Climate extremes; Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984918039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-015-0020-8     Document Type: Review

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