Evidence of two regimes of easterly waves over West Africa and the tropical Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2805-2808

  Diedhiou, Arona ^a   Janicot, Serge ^a   Viltard, Alain ^a   De Felice, Pierre ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

(Tropical); (West); Africa; Atlantic Ocean; Atmospheric motion; Planetary wave; Tropical meteorology; Wave propagation; Wind field

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EASTERLY WAVES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WEST AFRICA; ANTICYCLONIC CELLS; COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; EASTERLY WAVE; FAST FOURIER; MERIDIONAL WINDS;

WIND; TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; PLANETARY WAVE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WAVE POWER; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND WAVE;

(TROPICAL); (WEST); AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032148097     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02152     Document Type: Article

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