On the role of planetary-scale waves in the abrupt seasonal transition of the Northern Hemisphere general circulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1724-1746

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a  

^a Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; TROPICS;

GENERAL CIRCULATION; HEAT AND MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; QUADRATIC DEPENDENCE; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC THEORY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

TROPOSPHERE;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; EQUATORIAL DYNAMICS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MONSOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TRADE WIND; TROPOSPHERE; WINTER;

EID: 84896744415     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0137.1     Document Type: Article

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