Impact of the atmospheric mean state on tropical instability wave activity

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2341-2355

  Imada, Yukiko ^a,c   Kimoto, Masahide ^a   Chen, Xianyan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b China Meteorological Administration   (China)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feedback; Instability; Intertropical convergence zone; Model comparison; Oceanic; Tropics; Waves; Wind shear

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC RESPONSE; BAROTROPIC; COUNTER CURRENT; ENERGY SOURCE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MEAN FIELD; MODEL COMPARISON; MULTISCALES; OCEANIC; OCEANIC MODEL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; SURFACE CURRENT; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; WIND SHEAR;

FEEDBACK; PLASMA STABILITY; SHEAR FLOW; STATE FEEDBACK; TROPICS; WATER WAVES; WAVES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; KINETIC ENERGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; WIND SHEAR;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84859341980     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JCLI4244.1     Document Type: Article

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