Solar wind dynamic pressure effect on planetary wave propagation and synoptic-scale Rossby wave breaking

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4476-4493

  Lu, Hua ^a   Franzke, Christian ^a   Martius, Olivia ^b   Jarvis, Martin J ^a   Phillips, Tony ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

atmospheric waves; downward propagation; Rossby waves; solar wind dynamic pressure; wave mean flow interaction

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVES; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CIRCULATION ANOMALIES; NORTHERN ANNULAR MODE; ROSSBY WAVE; SOLAR WIND DYNAMIC PRESSURE; STATISTICAL EVIDENCE; WAVE-MEAN-FLOW INTERACTION;

SOLAR WIND;

BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; DIVERGENCE; IRRADIANCE; PLANETARY WAVE; POLAR REGION; POLAR VORTEX; PRESSURE EFFECT; ROSSBY WAVE; SOLAR WIND; STRATOSPHERE; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WAVE BREAKING; WAVE PROPAGATION; WINTER;

EID: 84881188167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50374     Document Type: Article

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