Scale-dependent models for atmospheric flows

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 249-274

  Klein, Rupert ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Meteorology; Multiple scales

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CLOUD FORMATION; CYCLONIC WEATHER; EARTH'S ROTATION; FLOW PHENOMENA; INTERACTING WAVES; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; LENGTH SCALE; MOIST CONVECTION; MULTIPLE SCALE; MULTIPLE SCALES; REDUCED SETS; ROSSBY WAVE; SCALE SEPARATION; SCALE-DEPENDENT MODELS; TIME-SCALES;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MACH NUMBER; METEOROLOGY; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; EARTH ROTATION; EQUATION; FLOW MODELING; GRAVITY FIELD; HURRICANE; METEOROLOGY; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 77952798535     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-121108-145537     Document Type: Review

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