Regional variations of moist static energy flux into the Arctic

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-65

  Overland, James E ^a   Turet, Philip ^b   Oort, Abraham H ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RADIATION; FERRELL CELL; GEOPOTENTIAL ENERGY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOIST STATIC ENERGY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; TRANSIENT EDDY;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0029751507     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<0054:RVOMSE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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