Global distribution of atmospheric waves in the equatorial upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: AGCM simulation of sources and propagation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kawatani, Yoshio ^a   Takahashi, Masaaki ^a,b   Sato, Kaoru ^b   Alexander, Simon P ^c,d   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^c  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 62149103977     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010374     Document Type: Article

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