Downward migration of extratropical zonal wind anomalies

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Plumb, R Alan ^a   Semeniuk, Kirill ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Annular modes; Arctic oscillation; Stratosphere troposphere interaction; Stratospheric dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0242330928     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002773     Document Type: Article

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