Kinematics of eddy-mean flow interaction in an idealized atmospheric model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2574-2595

  Kravtsov, Sergey ^a   Gulev, Sergey K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS APPROACH; ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CROSS-SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; EDDY-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY; PROPAGATING WAVES; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; LIFE CYCLE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STORMS; TIME SERIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANTICYCLONE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC MODE; CYCLONE; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84883819529     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0309.1     Document Type: Article

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