A global non-hydrostatic model study of a downward coupling through the tropical tropopause layer during a stratospheric sudden warming

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 297-304

  Eguchi, N ^a   Kodera, K ^b   Nasuno, T ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WARMING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84921412465     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-297-2015     Document Type: Article

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