Mesoscale gravity waves in moist baroclinic jet-front systems

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 929-952

  Wei, Junhong ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC WAVES; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; CONVECTIVE INSTABILITIES; CONVECTIVELY GENERATED GRAVITY WAVES; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; MOIST CONVECTION; SOURCE MECHANISMS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; LIFE CYCLE; MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GRAVITY WAVES;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE CONTENT;

EID: 84896785166     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0171.1     Document Type: Article

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