On the signal of the 11-year sunspot cycle in the stratosphere over the Antarctic and its modulation by the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO)

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 263-270

  Labitzke, Karin ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

POLAR VORTEX; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; SUNSPOT;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 11244262044     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2004/0013-0263     Document Type: Article

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