The roles of equatorial trapped waves and internal inertia-gravity waves in driving the quasi-biennial oscillation. Part II: Three-dimensional distribution of wave forcing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 981-997

  Kawatani, Yoshio ^a   Sato, Kaoru ^b   Dunkerton, Timothy J ^c   Watanabe, Shingo ^a   Miyahara, Saburo ^d   Takahashi, Masaaki ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; FLUX DIVERGENCES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; PHASE SPEED; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; VERTICAL COMPONENT; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL WIND SHEAR; WALKER CIRCULATION; WAVE FORCING; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX; WIND SHEARS; ZONAL VARIATIONS; ZONAL WAVENUMBER; ZONAL WIND;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FLUXES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAPPED WAVE; WALKER CIRCULATION; WAVE FORCE; WIND SHEAR; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77953336665     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3223.1     Document Type: Article

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