Vertically propagating Klevin waves and tropical tropopause variability

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1817-1837

  Ryu, Jung Hee ^a   Lee, Sukyoung ^a   Son, Seok Woo ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; COASTAL ZONES; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; FOOD PROCESSING; GRAVITY WAVES; HEATING; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MODULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE SCALES; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); BACKGROUND FLOWS; COLD AIR; CONSERVATION LAWS; DATA-SETS; EN ROUTE; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALES; KELVIN WAVES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL SIMULATIONS; REGRESSION (R2); TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE (UT); VERTICAL MODULATION; WAVE ACTIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC (WP); ZONAL WINDS;

WAVES;

KELVIN WAVE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND FIELD; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 45849117654     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2466.1     Document Type: Article

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