Wave events: Climatology, trends, and relationship to Northern Hemisphere winter blocking and weather extremes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2017, Pages 5675-5697

  Martineau, Patrick ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Burrows, D Alex ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticyclones; Blocking; Climatology; Interannual variability; Northern Hemisphere; Troughs

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTICYCLONES; BLOCKING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; TROUGHS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATOLOGY; EXTREME EVENT; GEOPOTENTIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TREND ANALYSIS; WAVE BREAKING; WINTER;

ALASKA; CANADA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85022330742     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0692.1     Document Type: Article

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