Planetary-Scale preconditioning for the Onset of Blocking

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 933-942

  Colucci, Stephen J ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FLOW PATTERNS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVES;

PLANETARY-SCALE PRECONDITIONING;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0035871165     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0933:PSPFTO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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