Roles of the atmospheric heat sources in maintaining the subtropical convergence zones: An aqua-planet GCM study

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4032-4049

  Kodama, Yasu Masa ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RAIN; VORTEX FLOW; WIND EFFECTS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC HEAT SOURCES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM); HADLEY CIRCULATION; HEMISPHERE; MONSOONS; ROSSBY WAVE; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONES (STCZ);

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

FRONTAL FEATURE; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE;

EID: 0033388204     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<4032:ROTAHS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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