Blocking and its Response to Climate Change

Current Climate Change Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 287-300

  Woollings, Tim ^a   Barriopedro, David ^b   Methven, John ^c   Son, Seok Woo ^d   Martius, Olivia ^e   Harvey, Ben ^c   Sillmann, Jana ^f   Lupo, Anthony R ^g   Seneviratne, Sonia ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^h ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Extreme events; Storm tracks

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051781686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40641-018-0108-z     Document Type: Review

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