Objetivo THE AIM OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO SYNTHESIZE THE KNOWLEDGE AVAILABLE FROM DATANALYSIS, THEORETICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING IN ORDER TO PLAN SOME EXPERIMENTS ON EURO-ATLANTIC BLOCKING WITH A GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL. SOME INTERESTING CASES OF BLOCKING WILL BE SELECTED AND ANALYSED IN SOME DETAIL IN THE LIGHT OF THEORETICAL IDEAS ALREADY ELABORATED BY THE PROPONENTS (MULTIPLE ATMOSPHERIC EQUILIBRIUM STATES WITH REALISTIC FORCING, ETC...). SIMPLE ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS WILL BE FURTHER ANALYZED TO DETERMINE THE PROPERTIES OF A GCM SUITABLE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MODELING BLOCKING. EVENTUALLY, IF POSSIBLE, THE SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS WILL BE STARTED. Programa(s) PRE-CLIMAT 2C - Sectoral research and development programme (EEC) in the field of environment (environmental protection and climatology) - indirect and concerted actions - Climatology -, 1981-1985 Tema(s) Data not available Convocatoria de propuestas Data not available Régimen de financiación Data not available Coordinador Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) Aportación de la UE Sin datos Dirección Via Irnerio 46 40126 Bologna Italia Ver en el mapa Coste total Sin datos