Modeling the August 2002 minor warming event

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Coy, L ^a   Siskind, D E ^a   Eckermann, S D ^a   McCormack, J P ^a   Allen, D R ^a   Hogan, T F ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COOLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRICTION; IONOSPHERE;

HEMISPHERIC EVOLUTION; MESOSPHERIC COOLING EVENT; MODELING; PLANETARY WAVES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING;

CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; HINDCASTING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WARMING;

HEMISPHERIC EVOLUTION; MESOSPHERIC COOLING EVENT; MESOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; SOUNDING OF THE ATMOSPHERE USING BROADBAND EMISSION RADIOMETRY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS;

EID: 21144448433     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022400     Document Type: Article

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