Significance of a midlatitude SST frontal zone in the formation of a storm track and an eddy-driven westerly jet

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1793-1814

  Sampe, Takeaki ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^b,c   Goto, Atsushi ^d   Ohfuchi, Wataru ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC EDDY; BAROCLINICITY; EDDY ACTIVITY; EDDY HEAT TRANSPORT; EQUATORWARD SHIFT; FRONTAL ZONES; GENERAL CIRCULATION; HIGH PRESSURE; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MIDLATITUDE ATMOSPHERE; MIDLATITUDES; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NEAR-SURFACE; POLAR FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STORM TRACK; SUBTROPICAL JET; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; JET STREAM; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STORM TRACK; WESTERLY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77649297191     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3163.1     Document Type: Article

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