Downward coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere: The relative roles of wave and zonal mean processes

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4902-4909

  Perlwitz, Judith ^a   Harnik, Nili ^b  

^a NASA Goddard Inst for Space Studies   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DECOMPOSITION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TIME SCALES; WAVE ACTIVITY; ZONAL MEAN FIELDS; ZONAL MEAN PROCESSES;

TROPOSPHERE;

COUPLING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 12344311397     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3247.1     Document Type: Article

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