Effects of an imposed quasi-biennial oscillation in a comprehensive troposphere-stratosphere-mesosphere general circulation model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2393-2418

  Hamilton, Kevin ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; QUASIBIENNIAL OSCILLATIONS (QBO); STRATOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION;

EID: 0032129076     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<2393:EOAIQB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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