(
all) common
atmospheric situations over a region.
CES conference, Oslo, Norway, 31 May - 2 June 2010
Advantages
• simple,
• consider the whole region,
• strongly correlated with several, local meteorological variables,
• if
based on
air pressure data only:
-
better represented in
climate models than precipitation.
Anne K. Fleig et
al. “Regional hydrological droughts and weather types
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