Structure and mechanisms of the Southern Hemisphere summertime subtropical anticyclones

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2115-2130

  Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROTROPIC; CONVECTIVE HEATING; FEED-BACK LOOP; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; NEAR-SURFACE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN SURFACES; PLANETARY WAVES; RADIATIVE COOLING; ROSSBY WAVE ACTIVITY; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOUTH ATLANTIC; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE; WEST COAST; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

CLOUDS; HEATING; OCEAN CURRENTS; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COOLING; HEATING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; ROSSBY WAVE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 77953722668     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3008.1     Document Type: Article

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