On annular modes and zonal jets

Journal of Climate

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1963-1978

  Monahan, Adam H ^a,b   Fyfe, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NANOFLUIDICS;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; ANNULAR MODES; DOMAIN SIZES; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION (EOF-1); GEOPOTENTIAL; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); JET STRENGTH; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (SH); ZONAL JETS; ZONAL WINDS;

JETS;

GEOPOTENTIAL; JET FLOW; KINEMATICS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; ZONAL FLOW; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 45249090172     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1841.1     Document Type: Article

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