Stratosphere-troposphere coupling in a relatively simple AGCM: The importance of stratospheric variability

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1920-1933

  Gerber, Edwin P ^a,c   Polvani, Lorenzo M ^a,b  

^a Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; DYNAMICAL COUPLING; EQUATORWARD SHIFT; EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; INTRASEASONAL TIME SCALE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POLAR-NIGHT JET; STATIONARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMING; STRATOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; TIME-DEPENDENT;

ATMOSPHERICS; JETS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WAVES; TROPOSPHERE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; COUPLING; JET FLOW; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR VORTEX; SPATIAL VARIATION; STANDING WAVE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 66849142323     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2548.1     Document Type: Article

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