On the three-dimensional residual mean circulation and wave activity flux of the primitive equations

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 373-394

  Kinoshita, Takenari ^a   Tomikawa, Yoshihiro ^b   Sato, Kaoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CORIOLIS FORCE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVE; OZONE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; STOKES FORMULA; STRATOSPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 77954797261     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2010-307     Document Type: Article

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