Quantitative diagnostics of mixing in a shallow water model of the stratosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2811-2829

  Sobel, Adam H ^a   Alan Plumb, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION; FLOW OF WATER; FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VORTEX FLOW;

CONTOUR ADVECTION; CONTOUR SURGERY; ENTRAINMENT ZONE; INVISCID SHALLOW WATER ATMOSPHERE; MODIFIED LAGRANGIAN MEAN THEORY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SIXTH ORDER HYPERDIFFUSION;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

SHALLOW WATER; VORTICITY;

SHALLOW WATER; STRATOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0033566471     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<2811:QDOMIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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