A modeling study of nonstationary trapped mountain lee waves. Part II: Nonlinearity

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1429-1445

  Nance, Louisa B ^a,b   Durran, Dale R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

TRAPPED MOUNTAIN LEE WAVES;

WIND;

ATMOSPHERE; MOUNTAIN; WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; LEE WAVE; MOUNTAIN WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032051473     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<1429:AMSONT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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