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Mesoscale meteorology in midlatitudes paul markowski and yvette richardson, penn state university, university park, pa. Differing impacts of resolution changes in latitude and. Thermospheric poleward wind surge at midlatitudes during great storm intervals. Mesoscale meteorology in midlatitudes researchgate. Mesoscale meteorology in midlatitudes functions as a comprehensive, easytouse undergraduate textbook while also providing a useful reference for graduate students, research scientists and. Probability density function pdf of the southern hemisphere winter jet positions, computed as the latitude of the zonalmean zonal wind maximum at the 850hpa level, a for the five coupled simulations run with the ipsl coupled model and described in section 2b and b for the five atmosphereonly simulations run with the lmdz4 model and. Bluestein, oxford university press, 1992, 0195062671, 9780195062670, 431 pages. Mesoscale meteorology in midlatitudes by paul markowski. Mesoscale meteorology in midlatitudes functions as a comprehensive, easytouse undergraduate textbook while also providing a useful reference for graduate students, research scientists and weather industry professionals.
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