Gravity and Rossby wave signatures in the tropical troposphere and lower stratosphere based on Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ), 1998-2007

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Thompson, Anne M ^a   Allen, Amber L ^a,b   Lee, Sukyoung ^a   Miller, Sonya K ^a   Witte, Jacquelyn C ^c,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERG ^*  (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MODELS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OZONE; TROPICS; WATER VAPOR; WAVES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; INDIAN OCEAN; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; LOWER FREQUENCIES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OZONE PROFILES; OZONE SONDES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; THOMPSON; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPICAL TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR DISTRIBUTION; WAVE SIGNATURES;

OZONE LAYER;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OZONE; OZONESONDE; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACER; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79952178134     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD013429     Document Type: Article

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