Sharpness of the extratropical tropopause in baroclinic life cycle experiments

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Wirth, V ^a   Szabo, T ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; WIND;

BAROCLINIC LIFE CYCLE; EXTRATROPICAL TROPOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; BAROCLINIC MODE; CONVERGENCE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPOPAUSE; VERTICAL MOVEMENT; WIND;

EID: 34548015866     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028369     Document Type: Article

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