The maintenance of extratropical intraseasonal transient eddy activity in the GEOS-1 assimilated dataset

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3159-3175

  Black, Robert X ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HEAT LOSSES; HEAT RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EXTRATROPICAL TROPHOSPHERE; TRANSIENT EDDY ACTIVITY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; EDDY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0033215905     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<3159:TMOEIT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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