A comparison between gravity wave momentum fluxes in observations and climate models

Journal of Climate

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6383-6405

  Geller, Marvin A ^a   Alexander, Joan ^b   Love, Peter T ^a   Bacmeister, Julio ^c   Ern, Manfred ^d   Hertzog, Albert ^e   Manzini, Elisa ^f   Preusse, Peter ^d   Sato, Kaoru ^g   Scaife, Adam A ^h   Zhou, Tiehan ⁱ  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^e ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^h MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE MOMENTUM; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; LONG-DURATION BALLOONS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE;

CLIMATE MODELS; MOMENTUM; SPECIFICATIONS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BALLOON OBSERVATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GRAVITY WAVE; MOMENTUM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84883147560     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00545.1     Document Type: Article

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