Seasonal influence of the quasi-biennial oscillation on stratospheric jets and Rossby wave breaking

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 935-946

  Hitchman, Mathhew H ^a   Huesmann, Amihan S ^a  

^a U1niversity of Wisconsin Madison ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL WINTERS; HIGH LATITUDES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR NATURE; PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR-NIGHT JET; POTENTIAL VORTICITY GRADIENTS; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; SEASONAL WIND; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; STRATOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; TROPICAL EASTERLY JET; WIND ANOMALIES;

JETS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

JET FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 69849086462     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2631.1     Document Type: Article

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