The horizontal and vertical structure of east Asian winter monsoon pressure surges

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 553, 1999, Pages 29-54

  Compo, Gilbert P ^a   Kiladis, George N ^b   Webster, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado ^*

Author keywords

Cold surges; Pressure surges; Shelf waves; Tropical extratropical interaction

Indexed keywords

MONSOON; SHELF WAVE; SURFACE PRESSURE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

(EAST); ASIA;

EID: 0032957914     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55302     Document Type: Article

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