Gravity waves over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean: Consistent momentum fluxes in mesoscale simulations and stratospheric balloon observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 670, 2013, Pages 101-118

  Plougonven, Riwal ^a   Hertzog, Albert ^b   Guez, Lionel ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Orographic waves; Vorcore

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRAL SPRING; DATA SETS; GINI COEFFICIENTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HOT SPOT; INTERMITTENCY; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MESOSCALE SIMULATION; MOMENTUM FLUX; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON; VORCORE;

GRAVITY WAVES;

MOMENTUM;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE FIELD;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84873322742     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.1965     Document Type: Article

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