A climatology of gravest waves in the equatorial lower and middle stratosphere: Method and results for the ERA-40 Re-analysis and the LMDz GCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1327-1346

  Lott, François ^a   Kuttippurath, Jayanarayanan ^a   Vial, François ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; OSCILLATING FLOW; WAVE PACKETS;

COMPOSITE ANALYSIS; EQUATORIAL WAVES; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY-GRAVITY WAVE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

GRAVITY WAVES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOPOTENTIAL; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; PLANETARY WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; TROPOSPHERE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 69849113452     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2880.1     Document Type: Article

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