Tropical connection to the polar stratospheric sudden warming through quasi 16-day planetary wave

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2007-2013

  Vineeth, C ^a   Pant, T K ^a   Kumar, K K ^a   Sumod, S G ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (Middle atmosphere dynamics; Polar meteorology; Waves and tides)

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR METEOROLOGY; STRATOSPHERE; WARMING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND;

EID: 78249237160     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-28-2007-2010     Document Type: Article

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