The seasonal cycle of midlatitude static stability over land and ocean in global reanalyses

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Frierson, D M W ^a   Davis, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

DATA SETS; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; MIDLATITUDES; MOIST PROCESS; OCEAN SURFACES; REANALYSIS; SCALING THEORIES; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STATIC STABILITY;

STABILITY;

DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STABILIZATION; STATIC RESPONSE;

EID: 79959969896     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047747     Document Type: Article

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