Polar vortex oscillation viewed in an isentropic potential vorticity coordinate

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 884-900

  Ren, Rongcai ^a,b   Cai, Ming ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Polar vortex oscillation; Poleward and downward propagation; Semi Lagrangian PVLAT coordinate

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845920010     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0884-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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