Weakening of interannual variability in the summer East Asian upper-tropospheric westerly jet since the mid-1990s

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1246-1258

  Lu, Riyu ^a   Ye, Hong ^a   Jhun, Jong Ghap ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

East Asian jet; energetics; interannual variability; mid 1990s

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054122214     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-0222-5     Document Type: Article

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