Abstract: The concept of linear mountain waves is generally equated with steady-state stationary waves. This essentially means that the absolute horizontal phase velocity of mountain waves is zero and that their momentum flux profile ...

Abstract: Twenty-nine highly accurate wind profiles up to 30 km obtained during four days of the GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) by tracking vertically ascending balloons with radar are presented and analyzed. The existence ...

Abstract: A plausible mechanism for the formation of mixing layers in the lower stratosphere above regions of tropical convection is demonstrated numerically using high-resolution, two-dimensional (2D), anelastic, nonlinear, ...

Abstract: Warm and moist air masses, required to generate deep convection east of the Andes Cordillera, are generally the result of humidity transport by the so-called low-level jet (LLJ). In this paper, it is shown from detailed ...