Evidence for wave resonance as a key mechanism for generating high-amplitude quasi-stationary waves in boreal summer

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 49, Issue 5-6, 2017, Pages 1961-1979

  Kornhuber, K ^a,b   Petoukhov, V ^a   Petri, S ^a   Rahmstorf, S ^a,b   Coumou, D ^a,c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Extreme weather; Rossby waves; Wave resonance

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; FLOW PATTERN; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; STANDING WAVE; SUMMER;

EUROPE; PAKISTAN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84994246815     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3399-6     Document Type: Article

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