The sensitivity of African wave disturbances to remote forcing

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1100-1110

  Druyan, Leonard M ^a   Hall, Timothy M ^b,c  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN WAVE DISTURBANCE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; JET; REMOTE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0030433079     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<1100:TSOAWD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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