Phase speed spectra and the recent poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere surface westerlies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 21, 2007, Pages

  Chen, Gang ^a   Held, Isaac M ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND;

EASTWARD PROPAGATION; STRATOSPHERIC WIND ANOMALIES; UNCOUPLED ATMOSPHERIC MODELS;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; EDDY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING; WESTERLY;

EID: 38549119553     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031200     Document Type: Article

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