Interhemispheric influence of the northern summer monsoons on southern subtropical anticyclones

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 10193-10204

  Lee, Sang Ki ^a,c   Mechoso, Carlos R ^b   Wang, Chunzai ^c   Neelin, J David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hadley circulation; Monsoons; Stationary waves

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; MONSOONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATIONARY WAVES; SUBTROPICAL ANTICYCLONE; TROPICAL CONVECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL WAVES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE;

TROPICS;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HADLEY CELL; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STANDING WAVE;

EID: 84890210444     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00106.1     Document Type: Article

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