Contour lengthening rates near the tropopause

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2721-2724

  Bithell, M ^a   Gray, L J ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND; CLOUDS; MIXING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONTOUR ADVECTION; CONTOUR STRETCHING RATES; TROPOPAUSE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

CONTOUR ADVECTION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELLING; MIXING PROPERTY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; STRETCHING RATES; TIME-SCALES;

EID: 0031277525     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02954     Document Type: Article

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