Northern Hemisphere Extratropical Tropospheric Planetary Waves and their Low-Frequency Variability: Their Vertical Structure and Interaction with Transient Eddies and Surface Thermal Contrasts

Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 149-179

  Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b   Miyasaka, Takafumi ^a   Kosaka, Yu ^c   Takaya, Koutarou ^b   Honda, Meiji ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climatic changes; Convection (Meteorology); Dynamic meteorology; Jetstreams; Ocean atmosphere interaction; Planetarywaves; Stormtracks; Subtropicalanticyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; MECHANICAL WAVES; POTENTIAL ENERGY; RAIN; STORMS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; JETSTREAMS; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; PLANETARYWAVES; STORMTRACKS; SUBTROPICALANTICYCLONES;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84890475341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GM000789     Document Type: Chapter

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