A note on the methods of analyzing traveling waves

Ching-Yen Tsay

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v26i3.9847

A note on the methods of analyzing traveling waves

Tellus

Volume 26 (1974): Issue 3

By: Ching-Yen Tsay

Open Access

|Jan 1974

Abstract

In recent years, methods have been presented to resolve large-scale atmospheric disturbances into traveling wave components. Eliasen (1958) and Eliasen & Machenhauer (1965) computed the amplitude and phase angle of the atmospheric wave as functions of time.

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