Observed and GCM-simulated westward-propagating, planetary-scale fluctuations with approximately three-week periods

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2324-2345

  Lau, Ngar Cheung ^a   Nath, Mary Jo ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0033393376     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2324:OAGSWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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