Atmospheric circulation patterns in the Arab region and its relationships with Saudi Arabian surface climate: A preliminary assessment

• Main Authors: Mansour Almazroui, Ramzah Dambul, Md. Nazrul Islam, Jones, P.D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2015
• Subjects: QC851-999 Meteorology. Climatology Including the earth's atmosphere
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31620/1/Atmospheric%20circulation%20patterns%20in%20the%20Arab%20region%20and%20its%20relationships%20with%20Saudi%20Arabian%20surface%20climate%20A%20preliminary%20assessment.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31620/2/Atmospheric%20circulation%20patterns%20in%20the%20Arab%20region%20and%20its%20relationships%20with%20Saudi%20Arabian%20surface%20climate_%20A%20preliminary%20assessment_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31620/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000964; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.03.014

This paper establishes and analyses the principal circulation patterns in and around Saudi Arabia (domain: 10°E– 70°E; 5°N–40°N) based on the daily mean sea-level pressure (MSLP) 0.75° × 0.75° gridded data derived from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) re-analysis ERA-In...