40-70 day meridional propagation of global circulation anomalies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Cai, Ming ^a   Ren, R C ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GLOBAL CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; MERIDIONAL PROPAGATION; STRATOSPHERE NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE INDEX; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ANOMALIES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

DATA SET; FIELD METHOD; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 33646465030     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025024     Document Type: Article

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