On the approximation of local and linear radiative damping in the middle atmosphere

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2070-2085

  Hitchcock, Peter ^a   Shepherd, Theodore G ^a   Yoden, Shigeo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Middle atmosphere; Numerical analysis modeling; Radiative transfer; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC VORTEX; BROAD SPECTRUM; CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; DAMPING RATE; LOCAL LINEAR; LONG WAVES; MECHANISTIC MODELING; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NEWTONIANS; NON-LINEARITY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS/MODELING; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POLAR VORTEX; RADIATIVE DAMPING; RADIATIVE EQUILIBRIUM; RADIATIVE HEATING; REFERENCE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE;

CLIMATE MODELS; DAMPING; HEATING RATE; RADIANT HEATING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VORTEX FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DAMPING; HEATING; MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; VORTICITY;

EID: 77955530668     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3286.1     Document Type: Article

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