Large-scale character of an atmosphere in rotating radiative-convective equilibrium

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 616-629

  Shi, Xiaoming ^a   Bretherton, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

baroclinic instability; rotating radiative convective equilibrium; self aggregation of convection; tropical cyclone like vortices

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DEFORMATION; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STORMS; SURFACE WATERS; VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELS; HADLEY CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSPORTS; RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SELF AGGREGATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

TROPICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; EDDY; EQUILIBRIUM; HADLEY CELL; POLAR REGION; RADIATIVE FORCING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84937203439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014MS000342     Document Type: Article

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