Forced gravity wave response near the jet exit region in a linear model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 652, 2010, Pages 1773-1787

  Wang, Shuguang ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b   Epifanio, Craig C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inertia gravity waves; Linear wave solution; Vortex dipoles; Wave capture

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT SHEAR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; LINEAR MODEL; LINEAR WAVES; SHORTER WAVES; SIMULATED GRAVITY; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; VERTICAL SHEAR; VORTEX DIPOLES; WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE CAPTURE; WAVE RESPONSE; WAVE STRUCTURES; WIND SHEARS;

ASPECT RATIO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VORTEX FLOW; WAVES;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; JET FLOW; RAY TRACING; VORTEX FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77958585848     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.676     Document Type: Article

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