Analysis on the dynamics of a wave-like teleconnection pattern along the summertime Asian jet based on a reanalysis dataset and climate model simulations

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 561-580

  Kosaka, Yu ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b   Watanabe, Masahiro ^a   Kimoto, Masahide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC WAVE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; JET FLOW; PERTURBATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; ROSSBY WAVE; TELECONNECTION; TROPOSPHERE; VORTICITY; ZONAL WIND;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 68049087652     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.87.561     Document Type: Article

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