Gravity waves generated by sheared three-dimensional potential vorticity anomalies

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2134-2151

  Lott, François ^a   Plougonven, Riwal ^a   Vanneste, Jacques ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Gravity waves; Potential vorticity; Shear structure flows; Stratospheric circulation; Subgrid scale processes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; EXACT SOLUTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC; RADIATION BOUNDARY CONDITION; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SHEAR STRUCTURE; STRATOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; SUBGRID SCALE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; UNBOUNDED DOMAIN; VERTICAL SHEAR; WAVE NUMBERS; WKB APPROXIMATIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DYNAMICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTICITY;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BOUNDARY CONDITION; GRAVITY WAVE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; RICHARDSON NUMBER; S-WAVE; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84864834760     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0296.1     Document Type: Article

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