Stratospheric dynamics

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 263-293

  Haynes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate; Geophysical fluid dynamics; Vortex dynamics; Weather

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; MECHANICAL WAVES; VORTEX FLOW;

MEAN FLOW; ROSSBY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; VORTEX DYNAMICS;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE; FLUID MECHANICS; WEATHER;

CLIMATE; FLUID DYNAMICS; GEOPHYSICS; VORTEX; WEATHER;

EID: 14544300958     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.fluid.37.061903.175710     Document Type: Review

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