Ocean-atmosphere coupling on different spatiotemporal scales: A mechanism for intraseasonal instabilities

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1834-1844

  Zhou, Lei ^a   Murtugudde, Raghu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC OSCILLATIONS; COUPLED MODELS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; MESOSCALE; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; RESONANCE MECHANISM; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; UNSTABLE WAVES; WAVE NUMBERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DISPERSION; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL;

EID: 69849105525     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2879.1     Document Type: Article

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