The driving of baroclinic anomalies at different timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Blanco Fuentes, Javier ^a   Zurita Gotor, Pablo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINICITY; EDDY HEAT FLUXES; EDDY MOMENTUM FLUX; FREQUENCY RANGES; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY SHIFT; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIDLATITUDES; PLANETARY SCALE; SHIFT-AND; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TIME-SCALES;

HEAT FLUX;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; DAMPING; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 83455231463     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049785     Document Type: Article

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