Dependence of the climatological axial latitudes of the tropospheric westerlies and storm tracks on the latitude of an extratropical oceanic front

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Ogawa, Fumiaki ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a   Nishii, Kazuaki ^a   Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Kuwano Yoshida, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTS;

ANCHORING EFFECTS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EXTRATROPICAL; FRONTAL ZONES; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; LOWER BOUNDARY; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; MIDLATITUDES; OCEANIC FRONTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SELF-MAINTENANCE; STORM TRACK; SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS;

STORMS;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATOLOGY; CYCLONE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OCEANIC FRONT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STORM TRACK; TROPOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

EID: 84858199622     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049922     Document Type: Article

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