Impact of the 2002, Southern Hemisphere, stratospheric warming on the tropical cirrus clouds and convective activity

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Eguchi, Nawo ^a   Kodera, Kunihiko ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING;

STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMING; UPWELLING; WAVE FORCING;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; KELVIN WAVE; MODIS; PERTURBATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; UPWELLING; WARMING;

EID: 34249890809     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028744     Document Type: Article

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