Impacts of stratospheric sudden warming event on tropical clouds and moisture fields in the TTL: A case study

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 137-140

  Eguchi, Nawo ^a   Kodera, Kunihiko ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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EID: 79952471498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2010-035     Document Type: Article

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