Factors controlling nonlinearity in mechanically forced stationary waves over orography

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2612-2629

  Ringler, Todd D ^a,b   Cook, Kerry H ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WAVE;

OROGRAPHY; STATIONARY WAVES;

EID: 0031398389     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<2612:FCNIMF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Ashe, S., 1979: A nonlinear model of the time-averaged axially asymmetric flow induced by topography and diabatic heating. J. Atmos. Sci., 36, 109-126.
2. Chen, S. C., and K. E. Trenberth, 1988: Orographically forced planetary waves in the Northern Hemisphere winter: Steady state model with wave coupled lower boundary formulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 657-681.
3. Cook, K. H., and I. M. Held, 1988: Stationary waves of the Ice Age climate. J. Climate, 1, 807-819.
4. _, and _, 1992: The time-mean response of the atmosphere to large-scale atmospheric flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 49, 525-539.
5. da Silva A. M., 1989: Comments on "Orographically forced planetary waves in the Northern Hemisphere winter: Steady state model with wave-coupled lower boundary formulation." J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 2101-2103.
6. Golub, G. H., and G. F. van Loan, 1993: Matrix Computations. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 170-171.
7. Haupt, S. E., J. C. McWilliams, and J. T. Tribbia, 1993: Modons in shear flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1181-1198.
8. Held, I. M., 1983: Stationary and quasi-stationary eddies in the extratropical troposphere: Theory. Large-Scale Dynamical Processes in the Atmosphere, B. J. Hoskins and R. P. Pearce, Eds., Academic Press, 127-168.
9. _, and M. Ting, 1990: Orographic versus thermal forcing of stationary waves: The importance of the mean low-level wind. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 495-500.
10. _, R. L. Panetta, and R. T. Pierrehumbert, 1985: Stationary external Rossby waves in vertical shear. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 865-883.
11. Hoskins, B. J., and T. Ambrizzi, 1993: Rossby wave propagation on a realistic longitudinally varying flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 1661-1671.
12. Lenters, J. D., K. H. Cook, and T. D. Ringler, 1995: Comments on "On the influence of the Andes on the general circulation of the Southern Hemispere." J. Climate, 8, 2113-2115.
13. Lindzen, R. S., 1994: The Eady problem for a basic state with zero pv gradient but β ≠ 0. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 3221-3226.
14. Lorenz, E. N., 1960: Energy and numerical weather prediction. Tellus, 12, 364-373.
15. Plumb, R. A., 1985: On the three-dimensional propagation of stationary waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 42, 217-229.
16. Ting, M., and I. M. Held, 1990: The stationary response to a tropical SST anomaly in an idealized GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 47, 2546-2566.
17. Trenberth, K. E., and S. C. Chen, 1988: Planetary waves kinematically forced by Himalayan orography. J. Atmos. Sci., 45, 2934-2948.
18. Tung, K. T., 1983: On the nonlinear versus linearized lower boundary conditions for topographically forced stationary long waves. Mon. Wea. Rev., 111, 60-66.
19. Saltzman, B., and F. Irsch, 1972: Note on the theory of topographically forced planetary waves in the atmosphere. Mon. Wea. Rev., 100, 441-444.
20. Swanson, K., and R. T. Pierrehumbert, 1995: Stationary Rossby waves in a homogenized potential vorticity atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 990-994.
21. Valdes, P. J., and B. J. Hoskins, 1991: Nonlinear orographically forced planetary waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 2089-2106.