Mountain waves in a turbulent atmosphere

Léon Covez

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v23i1.10313

Mountain waves in a turbulent atmosphere

Tellus

Volume 23 (1971): Issue 1

By: Léon Covez

Open Access

|Jan 1971

Abstract

The propagation of mountain waves in an atmosphere with a fluctuating parameter of stability is studied. Two cases are considered, the Gaussian, and a discontinuous Markov chain, corresponding to a dry and a wet atmosphere, respectively.

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