Seasonal variation of upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric equatorial waves over the tropical pacific

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 14, 1997, Pages 1895-1909

  Wikle, Christopher K ^a,b   Madden, Roland A ^b   Chen, Tsing Chang ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL WAVE; EQUATORIAL WAVES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE/LOWER STRATOSPHERE;

PACIFIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0031434699     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1895:SVOUTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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