Statistics of the global tropopause pressure

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3303-3325

  Hoinka, Klaus P ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0033067394     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<3303:SOTGTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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