Tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and the NAO/NAM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2861-2876

  Strong, Courtenay ^a   Magnusdottir, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER LEVELS;

BREAKING ANALYSES; ISENTROPIC SURFACES; MID LATITUDES; NAO INDICES; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ANNULAR MODES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVES; SEA LEVEL PRESSURES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; TIME LAGS; TWO TYPES; VELOCITY FIELDS; VELOCITY PATTERNS; ZONAL FLOWS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING;

ANTICYCLONE; CYCLONE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVE BREAKING; WINTER;

EID: 56849107775     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2632.1     Document Type: Article

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