Connection between the solar cycle and the QBO: The missing link

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 328-338

  Salby, Murry ^a,c   Callaghan, Patrick ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Atmospheric Systems and Analysis   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

POLAR VORTEX; QUASIBIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO); SOLAR CYCLE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOLAR CYCLE;

EID: 0034037730     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-13.2.328     Document Type: Article

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