Lagrangian available energetics and parcel instabilities

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 1754-1767

  Bannon, Peter R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRICTION; KINETIC ENERGY; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

COMPRESSIBLE FLUIDS; MULTICOMPONENT FLUIDS;

METEOROLOGY;

AIR MASS; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

EID: 4344636998     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<1754:LAEAPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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