Southern Hemisphere midlatitude atmospheric variability of the NCEP-NCAR and ECMWF reanalyses

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Dell'Aquila, Alessandro ^a   Ruti, Paolo M ^a   Calmanti, Sandro ^a   Lucarini, Valerio ^b  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 34250626091     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007376     Document Type: Article

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