Global circulation in an axially symmetric shallow-water model, forced by off-equatorial differential heating

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1275-1286

  Adam, Ori ^a   Paldor, Nathan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; DIFFERENTIAL HEATING; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; HADLEY CELLS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; INVISCID THEORY; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; MOMENTUM FLUX; NEW SOLUTIONS; NEW THEORY; ROSSBY NUMBERS; SHALLOW-WATER MODELS; STEADY SOLUTION; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS; TROPICAL REGIONS; VERTICAL ADVECTION;

ADVECTION; HEATING; TROPICAL ENGINEERING;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HADLEY CELL; HEATING; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; ROSSBY NUMBER; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 77953341990     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3324.1     Document Type: Article

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