Kelvin and rossby-gravity wave packets in the lower stratosphere of some high-top CMIP5 models

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2156-2173

  Lott, F ^a   Denvilbutchart, S N ^b,c   Cagnazzo, C ^d   Giorgetta, M A ^e   Hardiman, S C ^c   Manzini, E ^e   Krismer, T ^e   Duvel, J P ^a   Maury, P ^a   Scinocca, J F ^f   Watanabe, S ^g   Yukimoto, S ^h  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^g JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WAVE PACKETS;

COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; COUPLED WAVES; KELVIN WAVES; PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY-GRAVITY WAVE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; ZONAL-MEAN ZONAL WINDS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GRAVITY WAVE; KELVIN WAVE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; ROSSBY WAVE; STRATOSPHERE; WAVE MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 84898404391     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020797     Document Type: Article

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