Maintenance of zonal wind variability associated with the annular mode on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Yamashita, Yousuke ^a   Kuroda, Takeshi ^b   Takahashi, Masaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EULER EQUATIONS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; MARS GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; TRANSIENT WAVE; WAVE FORCING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; WAVE FORCE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 35948940816     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030069     Document Type: Article

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