Tropical comulus convection and upward-propagating waves in Middle-Atmospheric GCMs

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2765-2782

  Horinouchi, Takeshi ^a   Pawson, S ^b,c   Shibata, K ^d   Langematz, U ^e   Manzini, E ^f,g   Giorgetta, M A ^f   Sassi, F ^h   Wilson, R J ⁱ   Hamilton, K ^j   De Grandpre J ^k   Scaife, A A ^l  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^g ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ GFDL   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^k YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITY WAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; PARAMETERIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CUMULUS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0347185031     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2765:TCCAUW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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