A case study of an elevated stratopause generated in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Chandran, A ^a   Collins, R L ^a   Garcia, R R ^b   Marsh, D R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; WAVES;

ADIABATIC EFFECT; COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS; DIABATIC; OROGRAPHIC GRAVITY WAVES; PLANETARY WAVE ACTIVITY; SUDDEN STRATOSPHERIC WARMING; ZONAL MEANS; ZONAL WIND;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MODELING; COOLING; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

ARCTIC;

EID: 79955420803     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046566     Document Type: Article

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