Scale Analysis of Moist Thermodynamics in a Simple Model and the Relationship between Moisture Modes and Gravity Waves

• Published in: Journal of the atmospheric sciences Vol. 76; no. 12
• Main Authors: Adames, Ángel F., Kim, Daehyun, Clark, Spencer K., Ming, Yi, Inoue, Kuniaki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Meteorological Society 25.11.2019
• Subjects: Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Abstract Observations and theory of convectively coupled equatorial waves suggest that they can be categorized into two distinct groups. Moisture modes are waves whose thermodynamics are governed by moisture fluctuations. The thermodynamics of the gravity wave group, on the other hand, are rooted in...