A method to diagnose sources of annular mode time scales

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Mudryk, Lawrence R ^a   Kushner, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DECOMPOSITION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATE FORCINGS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; DECORRELATIONS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; REANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE COUPLING; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; STRONG COUPLING; SURFACE PRESSURES; TIME-SCALES; ZONAL MEANS;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CORRELATION; COUPLING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EQUATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOPOTENTIAL; LINEARITY; MAGNITUDE; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79961217994     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD015291     Document Type: Article

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