Morphology of Stratospheric Planetary Waves.

Abstract

This paper compares sudden warmings to find any consistent behavior of the important variables. The properties examined are amplitude and phase of planetary waves, sensible heat and momentum fluxes by each wave, and zonal means of geostrophic zonal wind, temperature, derived meridional wind and vertical motions. This is done for the seven warmings from 1970-74 for which daily gridden data up to 0.4 mb were available. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 28, 1981
Accession Number
ADA105006

Entities

People

  • A. D. Belmont
  • Denis G. Dartt
  • R. W. Wilcox

Organizations

  • Control Data Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Amplitude
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Geopotential
  • Grids
  • High Altitude
  • High Latitudes
  • Latitude
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Phase Velocity
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Polar Regions
  • Potential Energy
  • Regions
  • Temperate Regions
  • Wind

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology

Technology Areas

  • Space