The role of vertical shear of the meridional winds in the northward propagation of ITCZ

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Dixit, Vishal ^a   Srinivasan, J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRICTION;

BAROCLINIC; BAY OF BENGAL; DIFFUSION PARAMETERS; LINEAR MODEL; MEAN-WINDS; MERIDIONAL WINDS; PHASE SPEED; RATE OF PROPAGATION; REASONABLE VALUE; SCALE SELECTION; VERTICAL SHEAR; ZONAL WIND;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC MODE; EASTERLY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND DIRECTION; ZONAL WIND;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 79955615264     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046601     Document Type: Article

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