New method to estimate three-dimensional residual-mean circulation in the middle atmosphere and its application to gravity wave-resolving general circulation model data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3756-3779

  Sato, Kaoru ^a   Kinoshita, Takenari ^a,b   Okamoto, Kota ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; HEAT FLUX;

GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HILBERT TRANSFORM; MATERIAL CIRCULATION; OSCILLATORY COMPONENTS; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS; QUADRATIC FUNCTION; TRANSFORMED EULERIAN MEANS; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSPHERE; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; STANDING WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84896969068     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0352.1     Document Type: Article

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