Momentum flux spectrum of convectively forced gravity waves: Can diabatic forcing be a proxy for convective forcing?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4113-4120

  Chun, Hye Yeong ^a   Song, In Sun ^a   Horinouchi, Takeshi ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; HEAT CONVECTION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CONVECTIVELY FORCED GRAVITY WAVES; DIABATIC FORCING; MOMENTUM FLUX; NONLINEAR FORCING;

GRAVITY WAVES;

CLOUD; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GRAVITY WAVE; MOMENTUM;

EID: 28844434975     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3610.1     Document Type: Article

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