Boundary layer dynamics in a simple model for convectively coupled gravity waves

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2780-2795

  Waite, Michael L ^a   Khouider, Boualem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC; BOUNDARY LAYER DYNAMICS; CONVECTIVE DOWNDRAFTS; DEEP CONVECTION; FREE TROPOSPHERE; HORIZONTAL VELOCITY; INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; LINEAR STABILITY; MESOSCALE; MIDTROPOSPHERIC AIR; PHASE SPEED; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SIMPLE MODEL; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

AIR ENTRAINMENT; CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; VELOCITY; WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTION; GRAVITY WAVE; MODELING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 73549088967     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2871.1     Document Type: Article

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