Coupling between gravity waves and tropical convection at mesoscales

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2582-2598

  Lane, Todd P ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Gravity waves; Mesoscale processes; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD SYSTEMS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; DISPERSION RELATIONS; KEY COMPONENT; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE PROCESS; MODEL SIMULATION; SYSTEM LONGEVITY; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL CLOUDS; TROPICAL CONVECTION; WAVE PROCESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT CONVECTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY; WAVE FIELD; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 81555200717     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JAS3577.1     Document Type: Article

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