Role of planetary waves in the stratosphere-troposphere coupled variability in the northern hemisphere winter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 2375-2378

  Kuroda, Yuhji ^a   Kodera, Kunihiko ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TROPOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STATISTICAL METHODS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VECTORS;

ARCTIC OSCILLATIONS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PROPAGATION OF WAVES; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERIC WAVES; VERTICAL COMPONENT; ZONAL-MEAN ZONAL WINDS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION PATTERN; CONVERGENCE ZONE; PLANETARY WAVES; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ZONAL MEAN ZONAL WIND;

COUPLING; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0033404748     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900507     Document Type: Article

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