What is the source of the stratospheric gravity wave belt in Austral winter?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1583-1592

  Hendricks, Eric A ^a   Doyle, James D ^a   Eckermann, Stephen D ^a   Jiang, Qingfang ^a   Reinecke, P Alex ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STORMS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRAL WINTER; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WINTER STORMS;

GRAVITY WAVES;

AMPLITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; BAROCLINIC MOTION; FRONTOGENESIS; GRAVITY WAVE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; SATELLITE DATA; STORM TRACK; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE FIELD; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ANDES; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84899721906     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0332.1     Document Type: Article

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