Forced planetary waves in the Northern Hemisphere winter: wave- coupled orographic and thermal forcings

Chen Shyh-Chin Chen, K. E. Trenberth

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Abstract

A more complete and new formulation of the orographic forcing and new thermal forcings are included in a steady state model of the Northern Hemisphere planetary waves. When both forcings are included, the simulation produces excellent results which are compared in detail with observations. In particular, the Siberian high, the tropospheric East Asian trough and subtropical tropospheric East Asian jet stream maxima are well reproduced even though the forcing is primarily extratropical in origin. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)682-704
Number of pages23
JournalJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Volume45
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1988
Externally publishedYes

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