Signals of El Niño Modoki in the tropical tropopause layer and stratosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5259-5273

  Xie, F ^a   Li, J ^a   Tian, W ^b   Feng, J ^a   Huo, Y ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CONVECTION; EL NINO; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WAVE PROPAGATION; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84862576885     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-5259-2012     Document Type: Article

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