The implications of tropical Rossby waves for tropical tropopause cirrus formation and for the equatorial upwelling of the brewer-dobson circulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 247-261

  Boehm, Matthew T ^a   Lee, Sukyoung ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EDDY MOMENTUM FLUX;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRRUS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0242338683     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<0247:TIOTRW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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