The impact of the stratosphere on the troposphere during the southern hemisphere stratospheric sudden warming, September 2002

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 609, 2005, Pages 2171-2188

  Charlton, A J ^a,c   O'Neill, A ^a   Lahoz, W A ^a   Massacand, A C ^b   Berrisford, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Southern annular mode; Stratosphere troposphere connections

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOUTHERN ANNULAR MODE; STATISTICAL MODELLING; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE CONNECTIONS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 27644578933     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.43     Document Type: Article

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