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Chapter 11: The Northern Hemisphere Winter Zonally Varying Climatology

Chapter 11: The Northern Hemisphere Winter Zonally Varying Climatology

pp. 193-213
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Summary

In Chapter 1, we presented a survey of the general circulation encompassing both Northern and Southern Hemispheres and winter and summer seasons. In this chapter, we focus on the Northern Hemisphere winter season DJF, which arguably exhibits the most distinctive patterns in terms of zonally varying jets, storm tracks, and climatological‐mean stationary waves.

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