Characteristics of the Southern Hemisphere winter storm track with filtered and unfiltered data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 468-481

  Berbery, Ernesto H ^a   Vera, Carolina S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Centro de Investigacion del Mar y la Atmosfera   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY FILTRATION; ESTIMATED GROUP VELOCITY; MERIDIONAL WIND PATTERN; SYNOPTIC SCALE FLUCTUATION; WINTER STORM; WINTER STORM TRACK;

EID: 0029750469     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<0468:COTSHW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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