Uncertainties of estimates of inertia-gravity energy in the atmosphere. Part II: Large-scale equatorial waves

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3858-3873

  Zagar N ^a   Tribbia, J ^a   Anderson, J L ^a   Raeder, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; CROSS-EQUATORIAL FLOW; CURRENT ANALYSIS; EIGEN FUNCTION; ENERGY PROPAGATION; ENERGY SPECTRA; EQUATORIAL WAVES; HADLEY CELLS; INDIAN OCEAN; KELVIN WAVES; LINEAR THEORY; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MODEL DOMAINS; NORMAL MODES; REVERSE FLOW; SPATIO TEMPORAL FEATURES; TRANSIENT STRUCTURE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MOTIONS; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL WAVENUMBER;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; EASTERLY WAVE; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77249086391     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2816.1     Document Type: Article

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