Southern Hemisphere blocking onsets associated with upper-tropospheric divergence anomalies

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1614-1625

  Sáez de Adana, F Javier ^a   Colucci, Stephen J ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; HEAT CONVECTION; VORTEX FLOW;

AGEOSTROPHIC RELATIVE VORTICITY; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; TROPICAL CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; UPPER-TROPOSPHERIC DIVERGENCE ANOMALIES;

TROPOSPHERE;

ANOMALY; DIVERGENCE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 20444495200     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3421.1     Document Type: Article

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