Model study of waves generated by convection with direct validation via satellite

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1617-1631

  Grimsdell, Alison W ^a   Alexander, M Joan ^a   May, Peter T ^b   Hoffmann, Lars ^c  

^a Colorado Research Associates Division ^*  (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Convection; Gravity waves; Mesoscale models; Quasibiennial oscillation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; AUSTRALIA; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; GLOBAL SCALE; HEATING PATTERN; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL OUTPUTS; MODEL RESULTS; MODEL STUDY; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCANNING RADAR; WAVE PATTERNS; WAVEFIELDS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEATING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; RAIN; SATELLITES; WAVES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; RESEARCH WORK; SATELLITE DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE FIELD; WAVE GENERATION;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 77955579353     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3197.1     Document Type: Article

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