The stratospheric QBO signal in the NCEP reanalysis, 1958-2001

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 13, 2003, Pages

  Ribera, Pedro ^a   Gallego, David ^a   Pena Ortiz, Cristina ^a   Gimeno, Luis ^b   Garcia Herrera, Ricardo ^c   Hernandez, Emiliano ^c   Calvo, Natalia ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

COHERENT SIGNALS; HIGH LATITUDES; MULTITAPER METHODS; NCEP REANALYSIS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; SUBTROPICAL LATITUDES; WIND ANOMALIES;

GEOPHYSICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0141625974     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017131     Document Type: Article

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