Impact of a spectral gravity wave parameterization on the stratosphere in the Met Office Unified Model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1473-1489

  Scaife, A A ^a   Butchart, N ^a   Warner, C D ^a   Swinbank, R ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; GRAVITATION; OSCILLATIONS; WAVE EFFECTS; WIND EFFECTS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; GRAVITY WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 0036271896     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<1473:IOASGW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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