Rossby wave breaking in the southern hemisphere wintertime upper troposphere

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2623-2634

  Peters, Dieter ^a   Waugh, Darryn W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POLAR JETS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0347382723     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2623:RWBITS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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