Momentum fluxes of gravity waves generated by variable froude number flow over three-dimensional obstacles

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2260-2278

  Eckermann, Stephen D ^a   Broutman, John Lindeman ^b   Ma, Jun ^c   Boybeyi, Zafer ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gravity waves; Momentum; Mountain waves; Orographic effects; Wave breaking

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; AXISYMMETRIC; DIVIDING STREAMLINE; FAR-FIELD; FOURIER; GLOBAL CLIMATES; HILBERT; LOCAL WAVE; MESOSCALE MODEL SIMULATION; MODEL OUTPUTS; MOMENTUM FLUX; MOUNTAIN HEIGHT; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NONDIMENSIONAL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PRESSURE DRAG; SUBGRID SCALE; SURFACE DYNAMICS; SURFACE PRESSURE DRAG; THREE DIMENSIONAL MORPHOLOGY; WAVE DRAGS; WAVEBREAKING; WEATHER MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATE MODELS; DRAG; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVELET TRANSFORMS; WAVES;

MOMENTUM;

DRAG; FOURIER TRANSFORM; FROUDE NUMBER; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PARAMETERIZATION; STEADY FLOW; WAVE BREAKING; WEATHER;

EID: 77955585764     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3375.1     Document Type: Article

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