Summertime quadruplet heating pattern in the subtropics and the associated atmospheric circulation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Liu, Yimin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; TROPOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

CYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ANTICYCLONIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; CONDENSATION HEATING; RADIATIVE COOLING; THERMAL ADAPTATION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS; HEATING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; SUBTROPICAL REGION; THERMAL EVOLUTION; WARMING;

EID: 0043202787     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016209     Document Type: Article

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