Observations of convective and dynamical instabilities in tropopause folds and their contribution to stratosphere-troposphere exchange

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 104, Issue D17, 1999, Pages 21549-21568

  Cho, John Y N ^a   Newell, Reginald E ^a   Bui, T Paul ^b   Browell, Edward V ^c   Fenn, Marta A ^d   Mahoney, Michael J ^e   Gregory, Gerald L ^c   Sachse, Glen W ^c   Vay, Stephanie A ^c   Kucsera, Tom L ^f   Thompson, Anne M ^f  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; FOLDING; INSTABILITY; MIXING; OZONE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0033381942     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD900430     Document Type: Article

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