Reconstructing the quasi-biennial oscillation back to the early 1900s

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Brönnimann, Stefan ^a   Annis, Jeffrey L ^a   Vogler, Christian ^a   Jones, Phil D ^b  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; SEA LEVEL; TIDES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEA-LEVEL PRESSURE;

WIND;

CLIMATE MODELING; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; STRATOSPHERE;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; JAKARTA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 38949084862     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031354     Document Type: Article

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