Tracking gravity waves in baroclinic jet-front systems

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2402-2415

  Lin, Yonghui ^a,b   Zhang, Fuoing ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; JETS; RAY TRACING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVE PACKETS; WAVES;

BAROCLINIC; COLD FRONTS; COMPLEX BACKGROUNDS; FOURIER DECOMPOSITION; FRONTAL SYSTEM; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MESO-SCALE; PROPAGATING CHARACTERISTICS; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; SCALE GRAVITY; SIMULATED GRAVITY; SOURCE MECHANISMS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GRAVITY WAVE; RAY TRACING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 51749100816     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2482.1     Document Type: Article

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