Gravity waves above a convective boundary layer: A comparison between wind-profiler observations and numerical simulations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 625 B, 2007, Pages 1041-1055

  Bohme T ^a   Lane, T P ^b   Hall, W D ^c   Hauf, T ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Troposphere; Wave generation; Wave propagation; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; WIND-PROFILER OBSERVATIONS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

WIND;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; GRAVITY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WIND PROFILE;

EID: 34447634496     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.72     Document Type: Article

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