Multi-Decadal Classification of Synoptic Weather Types, Observed Trends and Links to Rainfall Characteristics over Saudi Arabia.

Multi-Decadal Classification of Synoptic Weather Types, Observed Trends and Links to Rainfall Characteristics over Saudi Arabia.

An automated version of the Lamb weather type classification scheme was employed to characterize daily circulation conditions in Saudi Arabia from 1960 to 2005. Daily gridded fields of sea level pressure (SLP) from both the NCEP/NCAR and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF)...

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Main Authors: Ahmed M Kenawy, Matthew F. McCabe, Georgiy eStenchikov, Jerry eRaj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
Subjects:
weather types
Directional flows
Daily rainfall
Circulation patterns
Extremes
Saudi Arabia. 1. Introduction
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2014.00037/full

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