A Model for the boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 72-86

  Wang, Bin ^a   Xie, Xiaosu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BOREAL SUMMER; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; MODEL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 0030731405     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0072:AMFTBS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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