Squall lines and convectively coupled gravity waves in the tropics: Why do most cloud systems propagate westward?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2995-3012

  Tulich, Stefan N ^a   Kiladis, George N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT-SPEED; BACKGROUND FLOW; CLOUD SYSTEMS; DISPERSION CURVES; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; EQUIVALENT DEPTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES; MEAN FLOW; MESOSCALE; SATELLITE RAINFALL DATA; SHALLOW-WATER; SQUALL LINES; TROPICAL CONVECTION; WAVE SIGNAL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS; ZONAL FLOWS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVES; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SHEAR FLOW;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLOUD; EASTERLY WAVE; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE MOTION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA; SQUALL LINE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84864834175     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0297.1     Document Type: Article

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