Equatorial convectively coupled waves in a simple muticlod model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3376-3397

  Khouider, Boualem ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIFE CYCLE; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MOISTURE; OCEAN CURRENTS; WAVES;

COUPLED WAVES; DEEP CONVECTIONS; EIGENSTRUCTURE; EQUATORIAL BELTS; FREQUENCY MODES; GALERKIN TRUNCATIONS; HORIZONTAL WAVES; LINEAR STABILITIES; LINEARIZED EQUATIONS; MOIST AIRS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATIONS; PARABOLIC CYLINDER FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER REGIMES; PHASE SPEEDS; ROSSBY WAVES; SELF-SIMILAR; SHALLOW WATER WAVES; SPECTRAL PEAKS; UNSTABLE WAVES; VORTEX CONFIGURATIONS; WAVE INSTABILITIES; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL WINDS;

ROTATION;

CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CONVERGENCE; EQUATORIAL WAVE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODELING; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 58049112928     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2752.1     Document Type: Article

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