Upward and downward injection of Rossby wave activity across the tropopause: A new aspect of the troposphere-stratosphere dynamical linkage

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 606, 2005, Pages 545-564

  Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Blocking; Cyclogenesis; Low frequency variability; Polar night jet; Refractive index; Wave activity flux

Indexed keywords

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCHEMATIC DIAGRAMS; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND;

CYCLOGENESIS; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; POLAR-NIGHT JET; ROSSBY WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

METEOROLOGY;

CYCLOGENESIS; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 27744497193     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.91     Document Type: Article

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