Numerical simulation of atmospheric response to pacific tropical instability waves

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3723-3741

  Small, R Justin ^a   Xie, Shang Ping ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WAVES; WIND;

TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVE (TIW);

CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TURBULENCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0242299394     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<3723:NSOART>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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