Climatology of sign reversals of the meridional potential vorticity gradient over Africa and Australia

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3890-3900

  Dickinson, Michael ^a   Molinari, John ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUMMER;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034535388     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<3890:COSROT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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