Interannual variability in the stratospheric-tropospheric circulation in a coupled ocean-atmosphere GCM

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 543-546

  Kitoh, Akio ^a   Koide, Hiroshi ^a   Kodera, Kunihiko ^a   Yukimoto, Seiji ^a   Noda, Akira ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CGCM; COUPLED OCEAN/ATMOSPHERE MODEL; STRATOSPHERIC/TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; NICKEL; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SURFACE WATERS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; OCEAN ATMOSPHERE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ZONAL-MEAN ZONAL WINDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030481241     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL00158     Document Type: Article

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