Western Pacific jet stream anomalies at 200 hPa in winter associated with oceanic surface heating and transient eddy activity

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-289

  Ren, Xuejuan ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

200 hPA westerly jet stream; Atmospheric transient eddy anomaly; Surface heating anomaly

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EDDY; JET STREAM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TRANSIENT FLOW; WESTERLY; WINTER; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 36849075198     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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