Simulations of the East Asian subtropical westerly jet by LASG/IAP AGCMs

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 447-457

  Guo, Lanli ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^a   Wang, Bin ^b   Li, Lijuan ^b   Zhou, Tianjun ^b   Bao, Qing ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Diabatic heating; East Asian subtropical westerly jet; GAMIL; SAMIL

Indexed keywords

EID: 55349106221     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-008-0447-0     Document Type: Article

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