Near surface westerly wind jet in the Atlantic ITCZ

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Grodsky, Semyon A ^a   Carton, James A ^a   Nigam, Sumant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT LOSSES; JETS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RAIN; SATELLITES;

PRESSURE GRADIENTS;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MONSOON; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 17744407705     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017867     Document Type: Article

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