Nonlinear saturation of vertically propagating Rossby waves

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 915-934

  Giannitsis, Constantine ^a   Lindzen, Richard S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA-PLANE CHANNEL; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; ENSTROPHY; EQUILIBRIUM FLOW; LINEAR PROPAGATION; LINEAR SOLUTION; LINEAR THEORY; MEAN FLOW; NONLINEAR FLOW; NONLINEAR SATURATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PROPAGATING DISTURBANCES; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; STRATIFIED FLUID; WAVE ABSORPTION; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVE STRUCTURES; WAVE-MEAN-FLOW INTERACTION; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS; WAVEBREAKING; ZONAL FLOWS;

FLOW INTERACTIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE-WAVE INTERACTION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 66949176719     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2978.1     Document Type: Article

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