Connections between the spring breakup of the southern hemisphere polar vortex, stationary waves, and air-sea roughness

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2137-2151

  Garfinkel, Chaim I ^a   Oman, Luke D ^b   Barnes, Elizabeth A ^c   Waugh, Darryn W ^a   Hurwitz, Margaret H ^b,d   Molod, Andrea M ^e,f  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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

^d MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NASA Goddard Space Flight Center   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC REDUCTION; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICAL MECHANISMS; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATIONARY WAVE PATTERNS; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; SURFACE WIND SPEED;

CLIMATE MODELS; HEAT FLUX; MOMENTUM; NASA; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND EFFECTS;

VORTEX FLOW;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE MODELING; DRAG; HEAT FLUX; POLAR VORTEX; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STANDING WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; SURFACE LAYER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND VELOCITY;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84881266585     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0242.1     Document Type: Article

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