U.S. East Coast Trough Indices at 500 hPa and New England Winter Climate Variability
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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE U.S. East Coast Trough Indices at 500 hPa and New England Winter Climate Variability
Using monthly gridded 500-hPa data, two synoptic indices are defined to better understand the principle mechanisms controlling intraseasonal to multiannual winter climate variability in New England (NE). The ‘‘trough axis index’’ (TAI) is created to quantify the mean longitudinal position of the common East Coast pressure trough, and the ‘‘trough intensity index’’ (TII) is calculated to estimat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Climate
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0894-8755,1520-0442
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3509:usecti>2.0.co;2