Vertically sheared horizontal flow with mass sources: A canonical balanced model

Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 543-591

  Majda, Andrew J ^a   Mohammadian, Majid ^b   Xing, Yulong ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cyclogenesis; Horizontal flows; Hot towers; Stability analysis; Strong shear sources; Vertical shear

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BUILDINGS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; TOWERS;

CYCLOGENESIS; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; HOT TOWERS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STRONG SHEAR SOURCES; VERTICAL SHEAR;

WAVE EQUATIONS;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CYCLOGENESIS; EDDY; EQUATORIAL WAVE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SHEAR FLOW; STABILITY ANALYSIS; VORTICITY;

EID: 56549123957     PISSN: 03091929     EISSN: 10290419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03091920802044787     Document Type: Article

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