Observational relationship of climatologic beta drift with large-scale environmental flows

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Zhao, Haikun ^a   Wu, Liguang ^a   Zhou, Weican ^a  

^a Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; VORTICITY;

CYCLONIC SHEAR; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; ZONAL FLOWS; ZONAL WIND;

HURRICANES;

ANTICYCLONE; GLOBAL WARMING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND SHEAR; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 72149111661     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040126     Document Type: Article

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