Three-dimensional characteristics of stratospheric mountain waves during T-REX

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-23

  Doyle, James D ^a   Jiang, Qingfang ^b   Smith, Ronald B ^c   Grubišić, Vanda ^d  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UCAR   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Coupled models; Field experiments; Mountain waves; Radiosonde observations; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; COUPLED MODELS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MOUNTAIN WAVES; STRATOSPHERE;

AIRCRAFT MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIVES; LANDFORMS; RADIOSONDES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORIOLIS FORCE; FORECASTING METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEE WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951649279     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3466.1     Document Type: Article

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