Transport of passive tracers in baroclinic wave life cycles

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1364-1381

  Stone, Elizabeth M ^a,c   Randel, William J ^a   Stanford, John L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BAROCLINIC WAVE LIFE CYCLES; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODEL; PASSIVE TRACERS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; LIFE CYCLE; TRACER;

EID: 0033562289     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1364:TOPTIB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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