Seasonal evolution of the upper-tropospheric westerly jet core over East Asia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Yaocun ^a   Kuang, Xueyuan ^a   Guo, Weidong ^b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; JETS; TROPOSPHERE;

JET CORE; SEASONAL EVOLUTION; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

JET STREAM; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 33746468554     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026377     Document Type: Article

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