Implementing the weak temperature gradient approximation with full vertical structure

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 662-669

  Shaevitz, Daniel A ^a   Sobel, Adam H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; HEAT CONVECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; VISCOSITY;

NONROTATING RADIATIVE CONVECTIVE MODELS; PRESSURE GRADIENTS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 1542750582     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2004)132<0662:ITWTGA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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