Variability of zonal mean tropical temperatures derived from a decade of GPS radio occultation data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1261-1275

  Randel, William J ^a   Wu, Fei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ENSO; Madden Julian oscillation; Quasibiennial oscillation; Stratospheric circulation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

BREWER-DOBSON CIRCULATION; ENSO; GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; TROPICAL TEMPERATURES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GPS; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TIME SERIES; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 84944028706     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-14-0216.1     Document Type: Article

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