The behavior of winter stationary planetary waves forced by topography and diabatic heating.

Abstract

A primitive equation linear wave model is developed to examine the effects of mean zonal wind structure on the vertical propagation of stationary planetary waves and to identify the characteristics of the winter stationary waves forced by realistic topography and diabatic heating. An analytic mean zonal wind model is used to facilitate changing the wind structure parameters for comparative experiments. A more realistic mean wind profile is used to simulate the observed behavior of stationary waves more closely. -from Author