The reddest atmospheric modes and the forcings of the spectra of these modes

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1614-1626

  Von Storch, Jin Song ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MODES; FORCINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SPECTRA;

EID: 0033150091     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1614:TRAMAT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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