Tropical stationary waves in a nonlinear shallow-water model with realistic basic states

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2540-2557

  Kraucunas, Ian ^a,b   Hartmann, Dennis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND EFFECTS;

EDDY DIABATIC HEATING; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ROSSBY GYRES; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TROPICAL STATIONARY WAVE; ZONAL WIND;

SURFACE WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOMENTUM; SURFACE WAVES; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND EFFECTS;

EDDY; GYRE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; STANDING WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 34547773567     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS3920.1     Document Type: Article

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