The influence of the equatorial upper stratosphere on stratospheric sudden warmings

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Gray, Lesley J ^a  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; OSCILLATIONS; WIND EFFECTS; IONOSPHERE; OSCILLATING FLOW; SOLAR ENERGY; WIND;

WARMING EFFECTS; 11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MODEL INTEGRATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOURCES OF VARIATION; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; STRATOSPHERIC WINDS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 0037490950     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016430     Document Type: Article

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