What kind of stratospheric sudden warming propagates to the troposphere?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Nakagawa, Ken Ichi ^a   Yamazaki, Koji ^b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT FLUX; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

GEOPOTENTIAL ANOMALIES; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMING; TROPOSPHERIC PLANETARY WAVE FORCING;

TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELING; FORECASTING METHOD; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 33645634261     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024784     Document Type: Article

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