The Gulf Stream influence on wintertime North Atlantic jet variability

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 143, Issue 702, 2017, Pages 173-183

  O'Reilly, Christopher H ^a   Minobe, Shoshiro ^b   Kuwano Yoshida, Akira ^c   Woollings, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

blocking; eddy driven jet; Gulf Stream; North Atlantic jetstream; storm track

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPOSPHERE;

BLOCKING; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; EDDY MOMENTUM FLUX; GULF STREAM; GULF STREAM REGION; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STORM TRACK;

HEAT FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; DATA SET; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; JET FLOW; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EUROPE; GULF STREAM;

EID: 84991107723     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2907     Document Type: Article

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