The roles of equatorial trapped waves and internal inertia-gravity waves in driving the quasi-biennial oscillation. Part I: Zonal mean wave forcing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 963-980

  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; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; EXTRA-TROPICAL ROSSBY WAVES; GRAVITY WAVE DRAG; HIGH RESOLUTION; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; KELVIN WAVES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERIC WINDS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WAVE FORCING; WIND SHEARS; ZONAL MEANS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAG COEFFICIENT; EQUATORIAL WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; INERTIA; KELVIN WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; TRAPPED WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVELENGTH; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 77953349067     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3222.1     Document Type: Article

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