Maintenance of austral summertime upper-tropospheric circulation over tropical South America: The Bolivian high-Nordeste low system

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 2081-2100

  Chen, Tsing Chang ^a   Weng, Shu Ping ^a   Schubert, Siegfried ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HEAT TRANSFER; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW;

SUMMER UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANTICYCLONE; CIRCULATION MODELING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; TROUGH;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032693554     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2081:MOASUT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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