Large-scale dynamical fields associated with convectively coupled equatorial waves

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 613-640

  Wheeler, Matthew ^a,b,c   Kiladis, George N ^a   Webster, Peter J ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; GRAVITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CONVECTIVELY COUPLED EQUATORIAL WAVES; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY; LARGE SCALE DYNAMICAL FIELDS; MIXED ROSSBY GRAVITY; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; WAVENUMBER FREQUENCY SPECTRA; WESTWARD INERTIO GRAVITY;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; EQUATORIAL WAVE;

EID: 0034162615     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0613:LSDFAW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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