Orographic constraints on a modeled Siberian snow-tropospheric-stratospheric teleconnection pathway

Journal of Climate

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1176-1189

  Gong, Gavin ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^a   Cohen, Judah ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SNOW; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE EFFECTS; WAVE FILTERS;

HEMISPHERIC SCALE; OROGRAPHY; SNOW PERTURBATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STRATOSPHERE; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 1842739526     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1176:OCOAMS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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