Tropical cooling in the case of stratospheric sudden warming in January 2009: Focus on the tropical tropopause layer

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 6325-6336

  Yoshida, K ^a,b   Yamazaki, K ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Morioka Meteorological Observatory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPOPAUSE; UPWELLING; WARMING; WAVE FORCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ALASKA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960132429     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-6325-2011     Document Type: Article

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