Two-day disturbances in the equatorial western Pacific

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 546, 1998, Pages 615-636

  Haertel, Patrick T ^a,b   Johnson, Richard H ^a  

^a Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud clusters; Inertio gravity waves; Tropical convection; Two day wave climatology

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CLUSTER; CONVECTION; DISTURBANCES; GRAVITY WAVE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC, (WEST);

EID: 0031747304     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54610     Document Type: Article

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