Local wave activity budgets of the wintertime Northern Hemisphere: Implication for the Pacific and Atlantic storm tracks

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 5673-5682

  Huang, Clare S Y ^a   Nakamura, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

baroclinic eddies; diabatic effects; eddy forcing; local wave activity; storm tracks; wave activity flux

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; FLUXES; HEAT FLUX; STORMS;

BAROCLINIC EDDY; DIABATIC; EDDY FORCING; LOCAL WAVE; STORM TRACK; WAVE-ACTIVITY FLUX;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAROTROPIC MOTION; CONVERGENCE; DIABATIC PROCESS; EDDY; HEAT FLUX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MOMENTUM TRANSFER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WAVE ACTION; WAVE FORCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 85020110541     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL073760     Document Type: Article

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