Stratospheric vacillations and the major warming over Antarctica in 2002

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 629-639

  Scaife, Adam A ^a   Jackson, D R ^a   Swinbank, R ^a   Butchart, N ^a   Thornton, H E ^a   Keil, M ^a   Henderson, L ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLASSIC WARMING MECHANISMS; PLANETARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC VACILLATIONS; WAVE AMPLITUDE;

GLOBAL WARMING;

POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WARMING;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; WORLD;

EID: 10244246136     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-3334.1     Document Type: Article

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