The Atmospheric General Circulation and Its Variability
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The Atmospheric General Circulation and Its Variability
Progress in understanding the general circulation of the atmosphere during the past 25 years is reviewed. The relationships of eddy generation, propagation and dissipation to eddy momentum fluxes and mean zonal winds are now sufficiently understood that intuitive reasoning about momentum based on firm theoretical foundations is possible. Variability in the zonal-flow can now be understood as a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0026-1165,2186-9057
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85b.123