Excitation of transient Rossby waves on the stratospheric polar vortex and the barotropic sudden warming

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3661-3682

  Esler, J Gavin ^a   Scott, R K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLOBAL WARMING; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VELOCITY; VORTEX FLOW;

ANGULAR VELOCITY; BAROTROPIC SUDDEN WARMING; STRATOSPHERIC POLAR VORTEX; TRANSIENT ROSSBY WAVES EXCITATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

BAROTROPIC MODE; POLAR VORTEX; ROSSBY WAVE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; WARMING; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 27744458138     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3557.1     Document Type: Article

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