An observational study on the latitudes where wave forcing drives Brewer-Dobson upwelling

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1916-1935

  Zhou, Tiehan ^a   Geller, Marvin A ^b   Lin, Wuyin ^c  

^a NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Eddies; Lagrangian circulation transport; Mass fluxes transportMeridional overturning circulation; Upwelling downwelling

Indexed keywords

BODY FORCES; BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EDDIES; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; LAGRANGIAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; TRANSIENT WAVES; UPWELLING/DOWNWELLING; WAVE FORCING; ZONAL MEAN FLOWS;

DYNAMICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; DOWNWELLING; EDDY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OVERTURN; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIMESCALE; UPWELLING; WAVE FORCE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84864841469     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0197.1     Document Type: Article

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