Baroclinic anomalies associated with the Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode: Roles of synoptic and low-frequency eddies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2361-2366

  Nie, Yu ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Yang, Xiu Qun ^a   Chen, Gang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

baroclinic anomalies; eddy zonal flow interactions; low frequency eddy; mean meridional circulation; Southern Hemisphere Annular Mode; synoptic eddy

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; LOW-FREQUENCY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ANNULAR MODES; SYNOPTIC EDDY;

METEOROLOGY;

HEAT FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BAROCLINIC MOTION; DATA SET; EDDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84879986395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50396     Document Type: Article

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