The origin and dispersion characteristics of the observed tropical summertime synoptic-scale waves over the western Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1630-1646

  Tam, Chi Yung ^a   Li, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); HEAT FLUX; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ADIABATIC DYNAMICS; DIABATIC FORCING; SUMMERTIME SYNOPTIC-SCALE DISTURBANCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL WAVE ACTIVITY FLUX;

METEOROLOGY;

CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; VORTICITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 33645975153     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3147.1     Document Type: Article

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