Circulation sensitivity to tropopause height

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1954-1961

  Williams, Gareth P ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GLOBAL CIRCULATION; JET STREAM; PLANETARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPOPAUSE;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; JET STREAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 33744479742     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3762.1     Document Type: Article

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