A toy model of the instability in the equatorially trapped convectively coupled waves on the equatorial beta plane

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3736-3757

  Andersen, Joseph Allan ^a   Kuang, Zhiming ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITIES; COUPLED SYSTEMS; COUPLED WAVES; DIVERGENT FLOWS; E-FOLDING; EIGENVALUE ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INPUT ENERGIES; INTER TROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONES; KELVIN WAVES; LINEAR INSTABILITIES; LINEAR STABILITIES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATIONS; PHASE SPEED; ROSSBY WAVES; SHALLOW WATER WAVES; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; SIMPLE MODELS; TOY MODELS; UNSTABLE WAVES; WAVE MODES; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE SPECTRUM; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

COASTAL ZONES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY CONVERSION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

BETA-PLANE; EIGENVALUE; GRAVITY WAVE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KELVIN WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; TRAPPED WAVE;

EID: 65549135844     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2776.1     Document Type: Article

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