Nonnormal frontal dynamics

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1218-1231

  Feliks, Yizhak ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b   Farrell, Brian ^b  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BOUSSINESQ; GROWTH FACTOR; INITIAL PERTURBATION; NON-NORMAL GROWTH; NONNORMAL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER REGIMES; PERTURBATION ENERGY; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PLANE MODEL; SECONDARY CIRCULATION; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; TOTAL ENERGY;

BIOACTIVITY; CLIMATOLOGY; PEPTIDES; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; BOUSSINESQ EQUATION; FRONTAL FEATURE; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

EID: 77953333592     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3214.1     Document Type: Article

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