Transition from geostrophic turbulence to inertia-gravity waves in the atmospheric energy spectrum

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 17033-17038

  Callies, Jörn ^a   Ferrari, Raffaele ^a   Bühler, Oliver ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric dynamics; Geostrophic turbulence; Inertia gravity waves; Meteorology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914145404     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410772111     Document Type: Article

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