Intertropical convergence zones during the active season in daily data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2425-2436

  Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a   Wang, Chia Chi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; VORTICITY;

ACTIVE REGIONS; AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; ATLANTIC; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INTER-TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; PROPAGATING DISTURBANCES; RE-ANALYSIS; SPACE SCALES; SPATIAL STRUCTURING; SPRING-IN; TIME SCALING; VORTICITY STRUCTURES;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EASTERLY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM; MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 52049086701     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2518.1     Document Type: Article

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