Regional sources of mountain torque variability and high-frequency fluctuations in atmospheric angular momentum

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1681-1694

  Iskenderian, Haig ^a   Salstein, David A ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; TORQUE;

ATMOSPHERIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COOL SEASON; FRICTION TORQUE; HEMISPHERE; MOUNTAIN TORQUE;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0032097539     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1681:RSOMTV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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