Energy cascade processes in rotating stratified turbulence with application to the atmospheric mesoscale

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Kitamura, Y ^a   Matsuda, Y ^b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; SLOPE STABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

CASCADE PROCESS; ENERGY CASCADE; ENERGY FLUXES; ENERGY INJECTION; ENERGY SPECTRA; GRAVITY MODES; MESOSCALE; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PLANETARY ROTATION; POWER LAW; ROTATION RATE; SPECTRAL SLOPES; STATIC STABILITY; STRATIFIED TURBULENCE;

ROTATION;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY FLUX; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GRAVITY FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NONLINEARITY; PLANETARY ROTATION; STRATIFIED FLOW; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77953755206     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012368     Document Type: Article

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