The impact of zonal propagation and seeding on the eddy-mean flow equilibrium of a zonally varying two-layer model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 7 I, 2005, Pages 2261-2273

  Zurita Gotor, Pablo ^a,b   Chang, Edmund K M ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; CHANNEL FLOW; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD SEEDING; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

BAROCLINICITY; EDDY DAMPING; EDDY-MEAN FLOW EQUILIBRIUM; UPSTREAM SEEDING; ZONAL PROPAGATION;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC MOTION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; TROPOSPHERE; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 27344438755     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3473.1     Document Type: Article

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