Diurnal nonmigrating tidal oscillations forced by deep convective clouds

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 101, Issue D2, 1996, Pages 4079-4091

  Williams, Christopher R ^a,b   Avery, Susan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SOLAR TIDE; CONVECTIVE RAIN CLOUD; DIURNAL OSCILLATION; GLOBAL LATENT HEAT; LATENT HEAT; LINEAR TIDAL THEORY; SATELLITE OBSERVATION; ZONAL WAVENUMBER DOMAIN;

EID: 0029731086     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95JD03007     Document Type: Article

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