Global estimates of equatorial inertia-gravity wave activity in the stratosphere inferred from ERA40 reanalysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Le Sommer, J ^a,b   Teitelbaum, H ^a   Zeitlin, V ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b LEGI   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; GRAVITATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

GLOBAL ESTIMATES; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVE ACTIVITY; KELVIN WAVES; SPACE-TIME VARIABILITY;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 33646852429     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024873     Document Type: Article

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