A formulation of a wave-activity flux for stationary Rossby waves on a zonally varying basic flow

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2985-2988

  Takaya, Koutarou ^a   Nakamura, Hisashi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUXES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; METEOROLOGY;

DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOCAL GROUPS; NON-ZONAL FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; SMALL AMPLITUDE; WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

MECHANICAL WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ROSSBY WAVES;

EID: 0031377384     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03094     Document Type: Article

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