Southern midlatitude zonal wind vacillation and its interaction with the ocean in GCM simulations

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 562-578

  Watterson, I G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RAIN; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND VACILLATION;

WIND;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0034143873     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0562:SMZWVA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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