Updraft/downdraft constraints for moist baroclinic modes and their implications for the short-wave cutoff and maximum growth rate

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4450-4458

  Zurita Gotor, Pablo ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; STABILITY;

MAXIMUM GROWTH RATE; MOIST BAROCLINIC MODES; SHORT-WAVE CUTOFF; UPDRAFT/DOWNDRAFT CONSTRAINTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; STABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROCLINIC MODE; NUMERICAL MODEL; UPDRAFT;

EID: 31144432143     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3630.1     Document Type: Article

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