Mountain-wave-like spurious waves associated with simulated cold fronts due to inconsistencies between horizontal and vertical resolutions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2629-2641

  Iga, Shin Ichi ^a   Tomita, Hirofumi ^a   Satoh, Masaki ^a,b   Goto, Koji ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIND;

BAROCLINIC WAVES; SPURIOUS GRAVITY WAVES; VERTICAL FLOW;

METEOROLOGY;

BAROCLINIC WAVE; COLD FRONT; GRAVITY WAVE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 34547652568     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3423.1     Document Type: Article

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