Trends in the surface meridional temperature gradient

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1243-1246

  Gitelman, Alix I ^a   Risbey, James S ^a,c   Kass, Robert E ^a   Rosen, Richard D ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT INDEX; TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; ZONAL BANDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE RECORD;

EID: 0031138304     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01154     Document Type: Article

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