Enhancement of Rossby wave breaking by steep potential vorticity gradients in the winter stratosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 904-918

  Scott, R K ^a   Dritschel, D G ^b   Polvani, L M ^a   Waugh, D W ^c  

^a Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; VORTEX FLOW;

CONTOUR DYNAMICS; ROSSBY WAVES; WAVE BREAKING;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR VORTEX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 2342464884     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0904:EORWBB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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