Cross-tropopause transport in the extratropical northern winter hemisphere, diagnosed from high-resolution ECMWF data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 536, 1996, Pages 1921-1941

  Siegmund, P C ^a   Van Velthoven, P F J ^a   Kelder, H ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Scale dependent fluxes; Tropopause fields; Troposphere stratosphere exchange

Indexed keywords

ECMWF; EXTRATROPICS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE/STRATOSPHERE EXCHANGE; WINTER;

EID: 0030323864     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53608     Document Type: Article

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