Global characteristics of medium-scale tropopausal waves observed in ECMWF operational data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 128, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3808-3823

  Sato, Kaoru ^a,c   Yamada, Kazutaka ^b   Hirota, Isamu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; JET STREAM; TROPOPAUSE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 0034536651     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<3808:GCOMST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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