Equatorially bounded zonally propagating linear waves on a generalized " plane

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2937-2945

  Fruman, Mark D ^a,b  

^a Centre Bretagne   (France)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; ROTATION;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; BUOYANCY FREQUENCY; CORIOLIS-FORCE TERMS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; INERTIA GRAVITY WAVES; SOLID-BODY ROTATION; TRADITIONAL APPROXIMATION; VERTICAL VELOCITY COMPONENTS;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS;

BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; CORIOLIS FORCE; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; PLANETARY ROTATION; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 73549093618     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2932.1     Document Type: Article

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