The role of high-latitude waves in the intraseasonal to seasonal variability of tropical upwelling in the Bbrewer-Dobson circulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1631-1648

  Ueyama, Rei ^a   Gerber, Edwin P ^b   Wallace, John M ^c   Frierson, Dargan M W ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; EDDY HEAT FLUXES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; RADIATIVE RELAXATION; SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EDDY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEAT FLUX; PLANETARY WAVE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84877637876     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0174.1     Document Type: Article

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