Transient growth of thermodynamically coupled variations in the tropics under an equatorially symmetric mean state

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 5771-5789

  Vimont, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled models; Latent heating cooling; Potential vorticity; Rossby waves; Thermodynamics; Tropics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPONENTS; ATMOSPHERIC HEATING; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CHOICE OF PARAMETERS; COUPLED EQUATION; COUPLED MODELS; DAMPING RATE; DYNAMICAL CONSTRAINTS; EIGENANALYSIS; EIGENVECTORS; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; FREE TROPOSPHERE; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LATENT HEATING/COOLING; LINEAR MODEL; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MODELING STUDIES; NON-NORMALITY; PARAMETERIZED; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRESSURE PERTURBATION; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; PROPAGATION SPEED; REDUCED-GRAVITY MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SST ANOMALIES; SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE MOISTURES; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSIENT DISTURBANCES; TRANSIENT GROWTH; WAVE CHARACTERISTICS; ZONAL WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HEAT FLUX; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LATENT HEAT; LINEARIZATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; VORTICITY;

TROPICS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; EIGENVALUE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL REGION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 78649304305     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3532.1     Document Type: Article

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