Origin of the summertime synoptic-scale wave train in the Western North Pacific

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1093-1102

  Li, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONVECTION-FRICTIONAL CONVERGENCE FEEDBACK; NONLINEAR BAROCLINIC MODEL; PHASE PROPAGATION; SYNOPTIC-SCALE WAVE TRAIN;

METEOROLOGY;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 33646011296     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3676.1     Document Type: Article

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