A model for the interaction between 2-day waves and moist Kelvin waves

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 611-625

  Liu, Fei ^a   Wang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Madden Julian oscillation

Indexed keywords

EDDY TRANSFER; EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION; KELVIN WAVES; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MULTI-SCALE STRUCTURES; SCALE INTERACTIONS; THEORETICAL RESULT;

MOISTURE CONTROL; TROPOSPHERE;

GRAVITY WAVES;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; KELVIN WAVE; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84863171861     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0116.1     Document Type: Article

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