Relationship between the subtropical anticyclone and diabatic heating

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 682-698

  Liu, Yimin ^a   Wu, Guoxiong ^a   Ren, Rongcai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANETS; STORMS; TOPOLOGY;

DIABATIC HEATING; SENSIBLE HEATING (SE); SYNTHETIC EFFECTS; VORTICITY-POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ANTICYCLONE; CLIMATE MODELING; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

EID: 1842428901     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<0682:RBTSAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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