A potential vorticity-based determination of the transport barrier in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 13145-13159

  Ploeger, F ^a   Gottschling, C ^a   Griessbach, S ^a   Grooss J U ^a   Guenther, G ^a   Konopka, P ^a   Muller, R ^a   Riese, M ^a   Stroh, F ^a   Tao, M ^a   Ungermann, J ^a   Vogel, B ^a   Von Hobe, M ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; MONSOON; POLAR VORTEX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STRATOSPHERE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; UPWELLING;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 84948823559     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-15-13145-2015     Document Type: Article

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