Wind stress simulations and the equatorial momentum budget in an AGCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 3051-3073

  Bacmeister, Julio T ^a   Suarez, Max J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TROPOSPHERE; TURBULENT FLOW; WIND STRESS;

ADJECTIVE MOMENTUM TENDENCIES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; MOMENTUM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WIND STRESS;

(EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036871162     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3051:WSSATE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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