Calculations of the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation for time-varying wave forcing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 883-894

  Geller, Marvin A ^a   Shen, Weixing ^a   Zhang, Minghua ^a   Tan, Wei Wu ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; OSCILLATION; WAVE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE FORCING;

EID: 0031445887     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0883:COTSQB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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