On the signatures of equatorial and extratropical wave forcing in tropical tropopause layer temperatures

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1084-1102

  Grise, Kevin M ^a   Thompson, David W J ^b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

atmospheric; Planetary waves; Stratospheric circulation; Temperature; Tropopause; Waves

Indexed keywords

GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; PLANETARY WAVES; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE EXCHANGE; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; TROPOPAUSE;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CIRRUS; EQUATORIAL WAVE; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GPS; PLANETARY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; WAVE FORCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84877683590     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0163.1     Document Type: Article

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