Scale Analysis of Blocking Events from 2002 to 2004: A Case Study of an Unusually Persistent Blocking Event Leading to a Heat Wave in the Gulf of Alaska during August 2004

Table 2

A summary of the occurrence and character of the blocking events for the calendar years 2002–2004. Blocking parameters in each cell are blocking events/durations (days)/BI.

	Summer	Fall	Winter	Spring	Total
Atlantic	9/12.7/2.30	17/10.7/3.27	16/11.1/3.52	16/10.0/2.78	58/10.9/3.03
Pacific	10/9.4/2.28	7/10.6/3.36	16/8.0/3.52	9/11.6/2.65	42/9.5/3.01
Continental	10/12.9/2.18	6/5.7/2.64	4/8.4/2.88	6/15.5/2.44	26/11.1/2.46
Total	29/11.6/2.25	30/9.7/3.16	36/9.3/3.44	31/11.5/2.67	126/10.5/2.90