Stationary planetary wave propagation in Northern Hemisphere winter - Climatological analysis of the refractive index

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 183-200

  Li, Q ^a   Graf, H F ^a,b   Giorgetta, M A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATOLOGY; EDDY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STANDING WAVE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 33846213557     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-183-2007     Document Type: Article

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