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Li et al. 1995

Li, L., Nathan, T.R. and Wuebbles, D.J. (1995). Topographically forced planetary wave breaking in the stratosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 22: doi: 10.1029/95GL02942. issn: 0094-8276.

The effects of topographically forced planetary wave breaking on eddy transport in the stratosphere are examined for zonal wavenumbers 1 and 2. Zonally averaged basic states representative of Northern Hemisphere (NH) and Southern Hemisphere (SH) winter conditions are used. Waves 1 and 2 each have significant wave breaking effects in the extratropical stratosphere during NH winter, whereas only wave 1 is important during SH winter. During NH winter, eddy mixing is dominated by wave 2 in the lower stratosphere and by wave 1 in the upper stratosphere and at the tropopause at low latitudes. The eddy diffusion effects due to the combined influence of waves 1 and 2 are much stronger in NH winter than in SH winter. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1995

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Keywords
Planetology, Fluid Planets, Atmospheres—structure and dynamics

Journal
Geophysical Research Letters
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