The East Asian upper-tropospheric jet streams and associated transient eddy activities simulated by a climate system model BCC_CSM1.1

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 700-716

  Xiao, Chuliang ^a   Zhang, Yaocun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

polar front jet; stationary wave; subtropical jet; transient eddy activity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; JET STREAM; POLAR FRONT; ROSSBY WAVE; STANDING WAVE; TROPOSPHERE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84882776394     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: 21914788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-012-0603-4     Document Type: Article

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