A new index for the wintertime southern hemispheric split jet

• Main Authors: Babian, Stella, Grieger, Jens, Cubasch, Ulrich
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Freie Universität Berlin 2018
• Subjects: southern hemisphere; split jet; climate variability; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik550 Geowissenschaften, Geologie551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologie; Antarctic; Austral; New Zealand; Pacific; Psi; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-68; https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/22233

One of the most prominent asymmetric features of the southern hemispheric (SH) circulation is the split jet over Australia and New Zealand in austral winter. Previous studies have developed indices to detect the degree to which the upper-level midlatitude westerlies are split and investigated the re...