Annular variability and eddy-zonal flow interactions in a simplified atmospheric GCM. part I: Characterization of high-and low-frequency behavior

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3226-3228

  Sparrow, Sarah ^a   Blackburn, Michael ^a   Haigh, Joanna D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BAROCLINIC EDDY; BAROCLINICITY; EDDY FORCING; GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HIGH FREQUENCY; LATERAL SHEAR; LINEAR DAMPING; LOW FREQUENCY; MOMENTUM BUDGET; NEWTONIANS; PHASE SPACES; QUASI EQUILIBRIUM; TIME-SCALES; WAVEBREAKING; ZONAL FLOWS;

JETS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

TROPOSPHERE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; BAROCLINIC MODE; JET STREAM; MESOSCALE EDDY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE BREAKING; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 73549121958     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3125.1     Document Type: Article

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