Impact of midlatitude stationary waves on regional Hadley cells and ENSO

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Caballero, Rodrigo ^a   Anderson, Bruce T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; FLUXES; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

EDDY STRESS; HADLEY CELLS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MIDLATITUDES; PLANETARY WAVES; STATIONARY WAVES; SURFACE PRESSURE FIELD; TROPICAL CLIMATES; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HADLEY CELL; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PLANETARY WAVE; PRESSURE FIELD; STANDING WAVE; WAVE DIRECTION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND STRESS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

EID: 71949131409     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039668     Document Type: Article

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