Polar night vortex breakdown and large-scale stirring in the southern stratosphere

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 965-975

  de la Cámara, Alvaro ^a,b   Mechoso, C R ^b   Ide, K ^b,c   Walterscheid, R ^d   Schubert, G ^e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite time Lyapunov exponents; Hyperbolic manifolds; Large scale stirring; Stratospheric polar vortex dynamics; Vortex breakdown

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; BALLOON OBSERVATION; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 77958152232     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0632-6     Document Type: Article

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