The role of inertial instability in determining the location and strength of near-equatorial convection

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 542, 1997, Pages 1445-1482

  Tomas, Robert A ^a   Webster, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute vorticity advection; Inertial instability; Intertropical convergence zone; Symmetric instability; Tropical convection

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; EQUATOR; ITCZ;

EID: 0031426327     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.54201     Document Type: Article

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