The mutual interaction between external Rossby waves and thermal forcing: The subpolar regions

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2018-2038

  Orlanski, Isidoro ^a   Solman, Silvina ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Convection; Diabatic heating; Feedback; Forcing; Rossby waves; Spectral analysis models

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SIMULATION; CONVECTION; CORE DYNAMICS; DIABATIC HEATING; EXTERNAL WAVES; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; GLOBAL SPECTRAL MODEL; LARGE AMPLITUDE; MUTUAL INTERACTION; ROSSBY WAVE; THERMAL FORCING;

HEATING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CONVECTION; DIABATIC PROCESS; HEATING; ROSSBY WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77955540666     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3267.1     Document Type: Article

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