Predictability of US tornado outbreak seasons using ENSO and northern hemisphere geopotential height variability

The predictability of dangerous atmospheric phenomena such as tornado outbreaks has generally been limited to a week or less. However, recent work has demonstrated the importance of the Rossby wavetrain phasing over the United States in establishing outbreak-favorable environments. The predictabilit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kent H. Sparrow, Andrew E. Mercer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987115000869