The Brewer-Dobson circulation inferred from ERA-Interim

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 665, 2012, Pages 878-888

  Seviour, William J M ^a,b   Butchart, Neal ^a   Hardiman, Steven C ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brewer Dobson circulation; ERA Interim; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL MEAN; ASCENT RATE; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; DOWN-WELLING; ERA-INTERIM; EXTRATROPICAL; EXTRATROPICS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OROGRAPHIC GRAVITY WAVES; SEASONAL MIGRATION; TIDAL VARIATIONS; TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEANS; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

ATMOSPHERICS; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVES; LASERS; TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GRAVITATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAVITY WAVE; MASS TRANSPORT; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84862213095     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.966     Document Type: Article

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