Simulation of stationary waves and their interannual variations with an adequately resolved linear p-coordinate model

Geophysica

Volumn 32, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 109-125

  Ruosteenoja, Kimmo ^a   Fortelius, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Climate anomalies; Linear climate model; Numerical resolution; Stationary waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; MODELS; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; MODELLING; STATIONARY WAVE;

EID: 0030377501     PISSN: 03674231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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