Implications of regime transitions for mountain-wave-breaking predictability

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5211-5223

  Doyle, James D ^a   Reynolds, Carolyn A ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOWNSLOPE; DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORMS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATIONS; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS; GRAVITY-WAVE BREAKING; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INITIAL STATE; MOUNTAIN WAVES; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; REGIME TRANSITIONS; TRANSITION ZONES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL; WAVE MOMENTUM FLUXES; WAVE RESPONSE; WAVE-BREAKING; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WAVES;

LANDFORMS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GRAVITY WAVE; SIMULATION; TRANSITION ZONE; WAVE BREAKING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 64149095505     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2554.1     Document Type: Article

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