Predictability of major stratospheric sudden warmings of the vortex split type: Case study of the 2002 southern event and the 2009 and 1989 northern events

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2886-2904

  Taguchi, Masakazu ^a  

^a AICHI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; TIME MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW;

CHARACTERISTIC TIME; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; REANALYSIS PROJECT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERIC SUDDEN WARMINGS; TROPOSPHERIC WAVES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HINDCASTING; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TIMESCALE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE FORCE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84904906545     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-078.1     Document Type: Article

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