Trapping of synoptic-scale disturbances into the North-Pacific subtropical jet core in midwinter

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 8-1-8-4

  Nakamura, Hisashi ^a   Sampe, Takeaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; JETS; TROPICS;

SURFACE BAROCLINIC ZONE;

GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EDDY; JET; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WINTER;

(NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037104906     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015535     Document Type: Article

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