Spontaneous QBO-like oscillations in an atmospheric model dynamical core

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3772-3776

  Yao, Weiye ^a   Jablonowski, Christiane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamical core; idealized model; numerical diffusion; QBO; stratospheric dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; CONVECTIVE PARAMETERIZATION; DYNAMICAL CORE; IDEALIZED MODELS; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NUMERICAL DIFFUSION; QBO; WAVE-MEAN-FLOW INTERACTION;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CUMULUS; DIFFUSION; DIVERGENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OSCILLATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TRAPPED WAVE;

EID: 84880639960     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50723     Document Type: Article

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