Stratospheric water vapour and tropical tropopause temperatures in ECMWF analyses and multi-year simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 553, 1999, Pages 353-386

  Simmons, A J ^a   Untch, A ^b   Jakob, C ^b   Kallberg P ^b   Unden P ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Humidity; Numerical modelling; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HUMIDITY; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE; TROPOPAUSE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0032914311     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55316     Document Type: Article

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