Propagation and breaking at high altitudes of gravity waves excited by tropospheric forcing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2186-2216

  Prusa, Joseph M ^a,c   Smolarkiewicz, Piotr K ^b   Garcia, Rolando R ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; GRAVITY WAVE; THUNDERSTORM; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030403514     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1996)053<2186:PABAHA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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