Source of gravity waves within a vortex-dipole jet revealed by a linear model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1438-1455

  Wang, Shuguang ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Gravity waves; Jets; Mesoscale processes; Numerical analysis modeling; Vortices

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND FLOW; BALANCE EQUATIONS; FORCINGS; GRAVITY-WAVE SIGNALS; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; LINEAR DYNAMICS; LINEAR MODEL; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE PROCESSES; NONHYDROSTATIC MESOSCALE MODELS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSIONS; RELATIVE VORTICITY; SOURCE MECHANISMS; THERMODYNAMIC EQUATIONS;

ADVECTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WAVES;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; GRAVITY WAVE; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE MOTION; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 77955586194     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3327.1     Document Type: Article

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