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Some evidence for inertial oscillations along transosonde trajectories
Author(s) -
Angell J. K.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709339510
Subject(s) - stratosphere , troposphere , inertial frame of reference , atmosphere (unit) , inertial wave , atmospheric sciences , spectral analysis , physics , meteorology , climatology , environmental science , geology , classical mechanics , astronomy , optics , mechanical wave , longitudinal wave , spectroscopy , wave propagation
Spectral and cross‐spectral analyses applied to ageostrophic winds derived from transosonde trajectories provide some evidence for the existence of inertial oscillations in the atmosphere, with the evidence considerably stronger in the stratosphere than in the troposphere.