Interaction between planetary-scale diffluent flow and synoptic-scale waves during the life cycle of blocking

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 807-831

  Luo, Dehai ^a   Liu, Jinting ^a   Li, Jianping ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Blocking case; Blocking waves; Quasi resonant triad interaction; Synoptic scale waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953944348     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9074-7     Document Type: Article

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