Gravity waves excited by jets: Propagation versus generation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Plougonven, Riwal ^a   Snyder, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL FLOW; GRAVITY WAVES; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; TROPOSPHERE; VECTORS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC JETS; COMPLEX THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOW; TROPOSPHERIC JETS; VERTICAL SHEAR;

METEOROLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; GRAVITY WAVE; JET STREAM; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 27744542709     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023730     Document Type: Article

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