Zonal jets as meridional transport barriers in the subtropical and polar lower stratosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 753-767

  Beron Vera, Francisco J ^a   Olascoaga, María J ^a   Brown, Michael G ^a   Koçak, Huseyin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian circulation transport; Mixing; Nonlinear dynamics

Indexed keywords

FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; FLUID PARTICLES; FLUX COMPUTATION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INVARIANT TORI; ISENTROPIC; LAGRANGIAN CIRCULATION/TRANSPORT; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL GRADIENTS; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE MODEL; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; PASSIVE TRACER ADVECTION; POLAR-NIGHT JET; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SUBTROPICAL JET; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; ZONAL JETS;

MIXING;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; JET FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXING; NONLINEARITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84863408023     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-084.1     Document Type: Article

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