The Weather and Circulation of August 1962Another Cool Month in the North

*Fhscd on dirision of long-prxriod precipitation data at rach city into 6 rqua!ly-frrequent ratcgories from 1 ilcast prwipitatiou) to 5 (most prccipitntion!. tile strolrg llcgtltive height:~110111uly. Meanwhile, much of soutllerrl Europe wls wartner and drier than rrornlwl under the tiolllirlatioll...

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Main Author: L. P. Stark
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 1962
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.395.1567
http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/090/mwr-090-11-0483.pdf
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Summary:*Fhscd on dirision of long-prxriod precipitation data at rach city into 6 rqua!ly-frrequent ratcgories from 1 ilcast prwipitatiou) to 5 (most prccipitntion!. tile strolrg llcgtltive height:~110111uly. Meanwhile, much of soutllerrl Europe wls wartner and drier than rrornlwl under the tiolllirlatioll ol ' R strong ridge aloft'. (See table 1.) I he troughs ill the eust'errl Atlantic ant1 western Siberia wpre ill areas ol ' 111axinru111 clitmatological expectancy [2], but were unusually intense. Fron ~ 5-dtLy Inem chart's durilly tlle 11ront1l it appct~rs that the At,ltmtic trough frequetltly deepened in acconlpaniment to the blocking near (;reenl:md. In tlrc Pacific a deeper than rlortllal trough extended fro111 tlre Bering Sea southwestward. This vigorous center ol ' action:tccornptmied lir~ited amplification of t'he circulation in t'lre Ptlcific. Do\v~streanl, shorter tha nornlal