Stratospheric gravity waves revealed in NWP model forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 655, 2011, Pages 303-317

  Shutts, G J ^a   Vosper, S B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eliassen Palm flux; Mountain waves; Orography; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

ELIASSEN-PALM FLUX; FORECAST MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE DRAG; GRAVITY-WAVE DYNAMICS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; MOMENTUM FLUX; MOUNTAIN RANGES; MOUNTAIN WAVE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; OROGRAPHY; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; STRATOSPHERE; SUBGRID SCALE; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TIME MEAN TEMPERATURE; UNIFIED MODEL; WAVE ACTIVITY; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE FLUX;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION; WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; MOUNTAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANDES;

EID: 79952509680     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.763     Document Type: Article

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