Why do baroclinic waves tilt poleward with height?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1454-1460

  Yin, Jeffrey H ^a   Battisti, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; WIND PERTURBATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROCLINIC WAVE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION;

EID: 3242673504     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<1454:WDBWTP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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