Abrupt transition to strong superrotation driven by equatorial wave resonance in an idealized GCM

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 626-640

  Arnold, Nathan P ^a   Tziperman, Eli ^b   Farrell, Brian ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric circulation; Dynamics; Feedback; Momentum; Nonlinear dynamics; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT TRANSITION; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; AXISYMMETRIC; BACKGROUND FLOW; EQUATORIAL ROSSBY WAVES; EQUATORIAL WAVES; FUTURE CLIMATE; HADLEY CIRCULATION; HYSTERESIS BEHAVIOR; JET VELOCITIES; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; MIDLATITUDES; MOMENTUM FLUX; PHASE SPEED; PLIOCENE; RESONANT AMPLIFICATION; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; SHALLOW WATER THEORY; TWO LAYER MODEL; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WARM CLIMATES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DYNAMICS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FEEDBACK; MOMENTUM; OCEAN CURRENTS; RESONANCE; WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EASTERLY WAVE; EQUATORIAL WAVE; HYSTERESIS; JET; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NONLINEAR WAVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ROSSBY WAVE;

EID: 84857200912     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0136.1     Document Type: Article

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