Middle atmosphere variability in the UK Meteorological Office Unified Model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 124, Issue 549, 1998, Pages 1485-1525

  Swinbank, R ^a   Lahoz, W A ^b   O'Neill, A ^b   Douglas, C S ^a   Heaps, A ^b   Podd, D ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEASONALITY; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 0031767230     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54907     Document Type: Article

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