A Climatology of Rossby Wave Breaking along the Subtropical Tropopause

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-373

  Postel, Gregory A ^a   Hitchman, Matthew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ROSSBY WAVE BREAKING; SUBTROPICAL TROPOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033075161     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0359:ACORWB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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