Global climatologies of Eulerian and Lagrangian flow features based on ERA-Interim

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1739-1748

  Sprenger, Michael ^a   Fragkoulidis, Georgios ^a,b   Binder, Hanin ^a   Croci Maspoli, Mischa ^c   Graf, Pascal ^a   Grams, Christian M ^a   Knippertz, Peter ^d   Madonna, Erica ^a,e   Schemm, Sebastian ^a,e   Škerlak, Bojan ^a   Wernli, Heini ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ERA INTERIMS; EULERIAN; GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY; INTERANNUAL; LAGRANGIAN FLOWS; TIME RESOLUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 85027257324     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00299.1     Document Type: Article

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