Parameterization of strong stratospheric inertia-gravity waves forced by poleward-breaking Rossby waves

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 98-119

  Zülicke, Christoph ^a,b   Peters, Dieter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETERIZATION; RADIOSONDES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VORTICITY; WIND EFFECTS;

POLAR VORTEX; POLEWARD-BREAKING ROSSBY WAVES; STRATOSPHERIC INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES;

GRAVITY WAVES;

BREAKING WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; POLAR VORTEX; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; RADIOSONDE; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; KUHLUNGSBORN; MECKLENBURG-WEST POMERANIA;

EID: 39749186080     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2060.1     Document Type: Article

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