Filtering of parameterized nonorographic gravity waves in the Met Office Unified Model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1831-1848

  Warner, Christopher D ^a   Scaife, Adam A ^b   Butchart, Neal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY;

GRAVITY WAVE FILTERING; ZONAL ANISOTROPY; ZONAL MEAN FLUXES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVE;

EID: 23744478615     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3450.1     Document Type: Article

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