Midlatitude tropopause and low-level moisture

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1187-1200

  Wu, Yutian ^a   Pauluis, Olivier ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGICAL ANNUAL CYCLE; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLOUDS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TESTING METHOD; TROPOPAUSE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

EID: 84896790479     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0154.1     Document Type: Article

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