Eliassen-Palm Fluxes of the 2-Day Wave

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2846-2861

  Lieberman, Ruth S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; HIGH RESOLUTION DOPPLER IMAGER; MEAN MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; STEADY STATE QUASIGEOSTROPHIC MODEL; WAVE FLUXES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AERODYNAMICS; OSCILLATION; WAVE;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OSCILLATION;

EID: 0033566433     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2846:EPFOTD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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