Seasonal cycle of the climatological stationary waves in the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3892-3919

  Wang, Hailan ^a   Ting, Mingfang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

CLIMATOLOGICAL STATIONARY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 0033570555     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<3892:SCOTCS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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