Southern mid- to high-latitude variability, a zonal wavenumber-3 pattern, and the Antarctic circumpolar wave in the CSIRO coupled model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3087-3104

  Cai, Wenju ^a   Baines, Peter G ^a   Gordon, Hal B ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; ATMOSPHERE OCEAN INTERFACE; MEAN SEA LEVEL PRESSURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION;

EID: 0033208442     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<3087:SMTHLV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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