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Weather regimes

The large-scale air-flow over a region of the earth, which is governed by the height contour patterns, can be considered as inducing or controlling typical weather conditions in an area.   The patterns are spatially fairly large, they affect the weather over regions as large as continents and have a persistence of typically ten days or more.   These patterns over the Euro-Atlantic region may be described by a few weather regime definitions:  

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