The Anomalous European Climates Linked to Different Euro-Atlantic Blocking

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-313

  Yao, Yao ^a,b   De Hai, Luo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

blocking action center; climate; precipitation; temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EUROPE;

EID: 85011419637     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3878/j.issn.1674-2834.14.0001     Document Type: Article

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