Large-scale waves interacting with deep convection in idealized mesoscale model simulations

Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-60

  Sobel, Adam H ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0037269775     PISSN: 02806495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0870.2003.201421.x     Document Type: Article

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