Gravity waves appearing in a high-resolution GCM simulation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1005-1018

  Sato, Kaoru ^a   Kumakura, Toshiro ^b   Takahashi, Masaaki ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX DIVERGENCE; MESOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE RADAR OBSERVATION; MOMENTUM FLUXES; QUASI BIENNIAL OSCILLATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 0033560451     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1005:GWAIAH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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