Covariation of finite-amplitude wave activity and the zonal mean flow in the midlatitude troposphere: 1. Theory and application to the Southern Hemisphere summer

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 8192-8200

  Wang, Lei ^a   Nakamura, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

baroclinic annular mode; eddy mean flow interaction; finite amplitude wave activity

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DAMPING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; MECHANICAL WAVES; MOMENTUM; SURFACE WAVES; TROPOSPHERE;

BAROCLINIC; EDDY MOMENTUM FLUX; EDDY-MEAN FLOW INTERACTION; FINITE AMPLITUDE WAVES; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MIDLATITUDE TROPOSPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WAVE-MEAN-FLOW INTERACTION;

HEAT FLUX;

AMPLITUDE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DAMPING; EDDY COVARIANCE; HEAT FLUX; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; PERIODICITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE; WAVE ACTION; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84946925849     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065830     Document Type: Article

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