Poleward stationary eddy heat transport by the tibetan plateau and equatorward shift of westerlies during northern winter

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3288-3301

  Park, Hyo Seok ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a,b   Son, Seok Woo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LAND-SEA THERMAL CONTRASTS; LINEAR INTERFERENCE; MODEL AND OBSERVATION; POLEWARD HEAT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HEAT TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EDDY; HEAT TRANSFER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; STANDING WAVE; WESTERLY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84885941093     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-039.1     Document Type: Article

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