Variability of the Northern Hemisphere polar stratospheric cloud potential: The role of North Pacific disturbances

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 641, 2009, Pages 1020-1029

  Orsolini, Yvan J ^a   Karpechkob, Alexey Yu ^b   Nikulin, Grigory ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climate variability; East Asian monsoon; Ozone; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COLUMN OZONE; COMPACT RELATIONSHIPS; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; HEIGHT ANOMALY; HIGH VARIABILITY; KEY FACTORS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY WAVES; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TIME-SCALES; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

AMPLIFICATION; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FLUXES; OZONE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MONSOON; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OZONE; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; STRATOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 70149124939     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.409     Document Type: Article

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