Effect of latitudinal variations in low-level baroclinicity on eddy life cycles and upper-tropospheric wave-breaking processes

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1569-1592

  Rivière, Gwendal ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; AQUAPLANET MODEL; BAROCLINIC WAVES; BAROCLINICITY; CORIOLIS PARAMETER; EDDY LIFE CYCLES; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; LONG-TERM INTEGRATION; MODE APPROACH; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY GRADIENTS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; STRETCHING EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THREE-LEVEL; TROPOSPHERIC WAVES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WAVEBREAKING; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ONTOLOGY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE; VORTEX SHEDDING;

VORTICITY;

BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CORIOLIS FORCE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING;

EID: 69849087683     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2919.1     Document Type: Article

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