Generation and propagation of inertia-gravity waves from vortex dipoles and jets

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1294-1314

  Wang, Shuguang ^a,d   Zhang, Fuqing ^b   Snyder, Chris ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORIOLIS PARAMETER; GRID-SPACINGS; HORIZONTAL VARIATION; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; INTRINSIC FREQUENCY; MAXIMUM STRENGTH; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; PHASE LOCKED; PROPAGATION EFFECT; RAY PATHS; RAY-TRACING TECHNIQUE; ROSSBY NUMBERS; STRATIFIED ATMOSPHERE; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; JETS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVES;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

AMPLITUDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA; JET STREAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; ROSSBY NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAVE GENERATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 69849100301     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2830.1     Document Type: Article

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