Internal gravity waves convectively forced in the atmospheric residual layer during the morning transition

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 659, 2011, Pages 1610-1624

  Gibert, Fabien ^a   Arnault, Nicolas ^a   Cuesta, Juan ^a   Plougonven, Riwal ^b   Flamant, Pierre H ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Convective boundary layer; Depolarization ratio; Gravity wave; Lidar; Residual layer; Thermal forcing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DEPOLARIZATION; GRAVITY WAVES; OPTICAL RADAR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC RESIDUALS; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS; DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; HORIZONTAL WIND SHEAR; INTERNAL GRAVITY WAVES; RESIDUAL LAYERS; SIMULTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; THERMAL FORCING;

SHEAR FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; DOPPLER LIDAR; GRAVITY WAVE; TURBULENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 80052542002     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.836     Document Type: Article

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