Model study of intermediate-scale tropical inertia-gravity waves and comparison to TWP-ICE campaign observations

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 591-610

  Evan, Stephanie ^a   Alexander, M Joan ^b   Dudhia, Jimy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CoRA Division ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Inertia gravity waves; Mesoscale models

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CONDITIONS; DEEP CONVECTION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL WINDS; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL DOMAINS; MODEL STUDY; MODELING SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL DATA; RADIOSONDE DATAS; RAY-TRACING METHOD; SOURCE REGION; VERTICAL GRIDS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WAVE PROPERTIES; WAVE STRUCTURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

CLIMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT CONVECTION; RADIOSONDES; TROPICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; RADIOSONDE; RAY TRACING; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE PROPERTY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84857218659     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-051.1     Document Type: Article

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