On modified rotational and divergent eddy fluxes and their application to blocking diagnoses

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 545, 1998, Pages 341-352

  Nakamura, Mototaka ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamically significant fluxes; Eddy mean flow interactions; Re analysis data; Synopticscale eddies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000494912     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54514     Document Type: Article

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