Two-way interactions between equatorially-trapped waves and the barotropic flow

Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 539-568

  Ferguson, James ^a   Khouider, Boualem ^a   Namazi, Maryam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central scheme; Climate modeling; Dispersion relation; Equatorially trapped waves; Jet stream; Phase locked; Rossby waves; Wave interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958594515     PISSN: 02529599     EISSN: 18606261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11401-009-0102-9     Document Type: Article

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