The importance of the tropical tropopause layer for equatorial Kelvin wave propagation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5160-5175

  Flannaghan, T J ^a   Fueglistaler, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kelvin waves; Ray tracing; Tropical Tropopause Layer; UTLS

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GRAVITY WAVES; IONOSPHERE; RAY TRACING; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; KELVIN WAVE PROPAGATION; KELVIN WAVES; RAY TRACING CALCULATIONS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE LAYERS; UTLS;

COASTAL ZONES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; KELVIN WAVE; RAY TRACING; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE VELOCITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84880251845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50418     Document Type: Article

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