Southerly surges on submonthly time scales over the eastern Indian Ocean during the Southern Hemisphere winter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1637-1654

  Fukutomi, Yoshiki ^a   Yasunari, Tetsuzo ^a,b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPICS; WIND;

EXTRATROPICS; LOW LEVEL SOUTHERLY SURGES; MERIDIONAL WIND SURGES;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CONVECTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND FIELD; WINTER;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 24944573270     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR2938.1     Document Type: Article

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