Tropical plumes in a barotropic model: A product of Rossby wave generation in the tropical upper troposphere

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 7 I, 2000, Pages 2288-2302

  Blackwell, Keith G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; BAROTROPIC MOTION; CONVERGENCE; ROSSBY WAVE; SUBSIDENCE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033833919     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2288:TPIABM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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