Quasi-biennial modulation of the southern hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3343-3346

  Baldwin, Mark P ^a   Dunkerton, Timothy J ^a  

^a NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATORIAL WINDS; FINAL WARMING; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

CLIMATOLOGY;

POLAR VORTEX; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0032173131     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02445     Document Type: Article

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