The effect of transient eddy on interannual meridional displacement of summer East Asian subtropical jet

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 484-492

  Xiang, Yang ^a   Yang, Xiuqun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

East Asian subtropical jet; transient eddy thermal forcing; transient eddy vorticity forcing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859826378     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-011-1113-5     Document Type: Article

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