Equatorial jets in decaying shallow-water turbulence on a rotating sphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3340-3353

  Kitamura, Yuji ^a   Ishioka, Keiichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GRAVITY WAVES; SHEAR FLOW;

EQUATORIAL JET; ROSSBY WAVE; SHALLOW-WATER TURBULENCE; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION; ZONAL-MEAN FLOW;

JETS;

ACCELERATION; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GRAVITY WAVES; JETS; SHEAR FLOW;

EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; JET FLOW; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; SHALLOW WATER; TURBULENCE; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION;

EID: 34948889189     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS4015.1     Document Type: Article

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