Properties of the Arctic tropopause

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 126, Issue 565, 2000, Pages 1515-1532

  Highwood, E J ^a   Hoskins, B J ^b   Berrisford, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arctic; Arctic Oscillation; Climate change; Radiosondes; Tropopause climatology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OSCILLATION; RADIOSONDE; TROPOPAUSE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0034040162     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56514     Document Type: Article

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