A three-dimensional view of the stratosphere-to-troposphere exchange in the GFDL SKYHI model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 2489-2492

  Eluszkiewicz, Janusz ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE; WIND; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

STRATOSPHERE-TO-TROPOSPHERE CHANGE; TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; TROPOSPHERE;

GCM; GFDL; SKYHI; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EXTRATROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ISENTROPIC; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; STRATOSPHERE TO TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE; TIME-SCALES; TRAJECTORY CALCULATIONS;

EID: 0030234132     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02262     Document Type: Article

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