The Brewer-Dobson Circulation: Dynamics of the Tropical Upwelling

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 868-890

  Plumb, R Alan ^a   Eluszkiewicz, Janusz ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DRAG; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PRANDTL NUMBER; STEADY FLOW; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VISCOSITY;

BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; ROSSBY RADIUS; TROPICAL UPWELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 0344672593     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0868:TBDCDO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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