Subsidence and upper-tropospheric drying along trajectories in a general circulation model

Journal of Climate

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 257-263

  Salathé Jr , Eric P ^a   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SUBSIDENCE; TROPOSPHERE;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CONVECTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 0343184061     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<0257:SAUTDA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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