Combined dynamics of boundary and interior perturbations in the Eady setting

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1549-1565

  Dirren, Sébastien ^a   Davies, Huw C ^a  

^a ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; VECTORS; VORTEX FLOW;

CYCLOGENESIS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY (PV); PSEUDORESONANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CYCLOGENESIS; CYCLONE; PERTURBATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 3943062328     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<1549:CDOBAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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