Perturbation growth in terms of baroclinic alignment properties

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 600 PART A, 2004, Pages 1655-1673

  Riviere G ^a   Hua, B L ^b   Klein, P ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b Centre Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

Alignment dynamics; Local baroclinic instability; Total energy growth

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

PERTURBATION GROWTH; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC (QG) FLOWS;

METEOROLOGY;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; PERTURBATION; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 3242805061     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.223     Document Type: Article

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