Potential vorticity inversion on a hemisphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1214-1235

  McIntyre, Michael E ^b   Norton, Warwick A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW;

FROUDE NUMBER; HEMISPHERE; LIGHTHILL RADIATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSION; ROSSBY NUMBER;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHOD; POTENTIAL VORTICITY;

EID: 0034039453     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1214:PVIOAH>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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