Shear and static instability of inertia-gravity wave packets: Short-term modal and nonmodal growth

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 397-413

  Achatz, Ulrich ^a   Schmitz, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL DIFFUSION; VISCOSITY; WIND;

INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVE PACKETS; MOLECULAR VISCOSITY; SHEAR STABILITY; STATIC STABILITY;

GRAVITY WAVES;

BUOYANCY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL DIFFUSION; VISCOSITY; WIND;

GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA;

EID: 33144482846     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3636.1     Document Type: Article

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