Sensitivity of mesoscale gravity waves to the baroclinicity of jet-front systems

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 670-688

  Wang, Shuguang ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CORIOLIS FORCE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; FLOW IMBALANCE; WIND SHEAR;

GRAVITY WAVES;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847351753     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3314.1     Document Type: Article

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