Tropical and subtropical meridional latent heat transports by disturbances to the zonal mean and their role in the general circulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1872-1889

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a   Pauluis, Olivier ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eddies; Energy transport; Meridional overturning circulation

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC WAVES; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; EDDIES; EDDY TRANSPORTS; ENERGY TRANSPORT; EULERIAN; GENERAL CIRCULATION; ISENTROPIC; LATENT HEAT TRANSPORT; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MIDLATITUDES; MIDTROPOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY SCALE; SENSIBLE HEAT; STATIONARY TRANSPORT; STREAMFUNCTIONS; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEANS; TRANSIENT TRANSPORT; ZONAL MEANS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; HEAT CONVECTION;

TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONE; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84864864545     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0236.1     Document Type: Article

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