Trapped lee wave interference in the presence of surface friction

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 918-936

  Stiperski, Ivana ^a   Grubišić, Vanda ^b  

^a METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Boundary layer; Friction; Mountain waves; Nonhydrostatic models; Orographic effects; Waves

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY-LAYER SEPARATION; CONSTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE; FLOW REGIMES; FRICTIONAL BOUNDARIES; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDIRECT EFFECTS; LEE WAVES; LINEAR INTERFERENCE; LINEAR THEORY; MESOSCALE; MOUNTAIN WAVES; NON-LINEARITY; NONHYDROSTATIC MODEL; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SURFACE FRICTION; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FRICTION; LANDFORMS; ROTORS; TRIBOLOGY; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BOUNDARY LAYER; LEE WAVE; NONLINEARITY; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRAPPED WAVE;

EID: 79955015023     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAS3495.1     Document Type: Article

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