Wave-activity conservation laws for the three-dimensional anelastic and Boussinesq equations with a horizontally homogeneous background flow

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 594, Issue , 2008, Pages 493-506

  Shaw, Tiffany A ^a   Shepherd, Theodore G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; HAMILTONIANS; PARAMETERIZATION; SHEAR FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DOPPLER-SHIFTED GRAVITY WAVES; ELIASSEN-PALM WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE-ACTIVITY CONSERVATION;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

FLUID DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVES; HAMILTONIANS; PARAMETERIZATION; SHEAR FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; SHEAR FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 37449014450     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112007009160     Document Type: Article

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