Gravity waves in shear and implications for organized convection

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2579-2599

  Stechmann, Samuel N ^a   Majda, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELS; BACKGROUND WINDS; BAROCLINIC MODE; BAROTROPIC; CONVECTIVE CELL; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; COUPLED WAVES; HEAT SOURCES; LINEAR THEORY; LOW LEVEL; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; RESONANT FORCING; TWO DIMENSIONAL MODEL; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; UPSTREAM WAVES; WAVE TRAIN; WIND PROFILES; WIND SHEARS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LOCOMOTIVES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RAILROAD CARS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC MODE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; JET FLOW; LINEARITY; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPOSPHERE; WIND PROFILE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 73549100885     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS2976.1     Document Type: Article

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