Differences between more divergent and more rotational types of convectively coupled equatorial waves. Part I: Space-time spectral analyses

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-16

  Yasunaga, Kazuaki ^a   Mapes, Brian ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Inertia gravity waves; Kelvin waves; Rossby waves; Tropics

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE PEAKS; CROSS SPECTRA; DISPERSION CURVES; DRY CONDITION; EQUATORIAL WAVES; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; INFRARED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; KELVIN WAVES; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PHASE LAGS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; REANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; TIME SECTION; TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS;

GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

RAIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); ROSSBY WAVE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855819078     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-033.1     Document Type: Article

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