Gravity wave refraction by three-dimensionally varying winds and the global transport of angular momentum

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2892-2906

  Hasha, Alexander ^a   Bühler, Olivier ^a   Scinocca, John ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DYNAMICS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; FLUXES; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MOMENTUM; REFRACTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM FLUXES; ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATES; BASIC FLOWS; GLOBAL TRANSPORTS; GRAVITY WAVE PROPAGATIONS; INERTIAL FREQUENCIES; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; MOMENTUM FLUXES; OFFLINE COMPUTATIONS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SCALING ARGUMENTS; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; TOPOGRAPHIC WAVES; TRACING MODELS; VERTICAL FLUXES; WAVE DYNAMICS; WAVE REFRACTIONS;

WAVES;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; RAY TRACING; TOPOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 56849119553     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2561.1     Document Type: Article

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