Sensitivities of the lower-Stratospheric transport and mixing to tropical SST heating

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2674-2694

  Yang, Huang ^a   Chen, Gang ^a   Domeisen, Daniela I V ^b  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEATING; MIXING; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; POLAR STRATOSPHERE; RESIDUAL CIRCULATIONS; SST PERTURBATIONS; SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; VERTICAL POSITIONS;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; HEATING; MIXING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84903904386     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0276.1     Document Type: Article

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