Precipitation fronts and the reflection and transmission of tropical disturbances

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 633 B, 2008, Pages 913-930

  Pauluis, Olivier ^a   Frierson, Dargan M W ^b   Majda, Andrew J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Moist convection; Quasi equilibrium

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CURING; DEWATERING; DRYING; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; SPEED; TROPICS; WAVES; REFLECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CASE OF OVER; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LAPSE RATE; LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION; MOIST CONVECTION; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PRECIPITATION FRONTS; PRECIPITATION RATE; PROPAGATION SPEED; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS; RIEMANN PROBLEMS; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILING; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; TROPICAL DISTURBANCES; VERTICAL VELOCITIES; WALKER CIRCULATION; CASE OF OVERS; IDEALIZED MODELS; LAPSE RATES; PRECIPITATION RATES; PROPAGATION SPEEDS; REFLECTION AND TRANSMISSIONS; WALKER CIRCULATIONS;

REFLECTION; ATMOSPHERICS;

ADIABATIC LAPSE RATE; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; DISTURBANCE; GRAVITY WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WALKER CIRCULATION; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 48649107659     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.250     Document Type: Article

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