Browsing Department of Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences (MU) by Identifier "1520-0442"
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The Climatology of Blocking Anticyclones for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Block Intensity as a Diagnostic
(American Meteorological Society, 2002-12)A 30-yr climatology of blocking events was compiled by stratifying the data into seasonal and three regional categories for both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres using the NCEP-NCAR reanalyses. Several characteristics ... -
A Climatology of Northern Hemisphere Blocking
(American Meteorological Society, 2006-03)In this paper a 55-yr (1948-2002) Northern Hemisphere blocking climatology is presented. Traditional blocking indices and methodologies are revised and a new blocking detection method is designed. This algorithm detects ... -
The Wintertime Southern Hemisphere Split Jet: Structure, Variability, and Evolution
(American Meteorological Society, 2001-11)A persistent feature of the Southern Hemisphere upper-level time-mean flow is the presence of a split jet across the South Pacific east of Australia during the austral winter. The split jet is composed of the subtropical ...