Seasonal aspects of the quasi-biennial oscillation in the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model and ERA-40

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 406-421

  Krismer, Thomas R ^a,b   Giorgetta, Marco A ^a   Esch, Monika ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL ON EARTH SYSTEM MODELLING   (Germany)

Author keywords

QBO SAO coupling; quasi biennial oscillation; seasonal modulation of QBO forcing; semiannual oscillation; stalling of QBO jets in lower stratosphere

Indexed keywords

MODULATION;

LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SEASONAL MODULATION OF QBO FORCING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE;

OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL);

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DATA SET; FILTER; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRATOSPHERE; WESTERLY;

GERMANY;

EID: 84880755893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jame.20024     Document Type: Article

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