QBO and Pinatubo signals in the mass flux at 100 hPa and stratospheric circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1641-1644

  Seol, Dong Il ^a   Yamazaki, Koji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLCANOES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; RADIATIVE CALCULATIONS; RESIDUAL CIRCULATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEANS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

MULTIPLE REGRESSION STATISTICAL MODEL; QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO); TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEAN (TEM) EQUATION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MASS FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE;

EID: 0032523688     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01295     Document Type: Article

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