Diffusive decay of tropopause folds and the related cross-tropopause mass flux

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 8 II, 2000, Pages 2958-2966

  Hartjenstein, Gisela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLD; PARAMETERIZATION; TROPOPAUSE; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; TURBULENT MIXING;

EID: 0033783789     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2958:ddotfa>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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