Decomposition of Atmospheric Disturbances into Standing and Traveling Components, with Application to Northern Hemisphere Planetary Waves and Stratosphere Troposphere Coupling
Watt-Meyer, O; Kushner, P J.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 72(2): 787-802
2015
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-4928 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-14-0214.1
Accession: 064652338
<jats:title></jats:title> This study updates a body of literature that aims to separate atmospheric disturbances into standing and traveling zonal wave components. Classical wavenumber–frequency analysis decomposes longitude- and time-dependent signals into contributions from distinct spatial and temporal scales. Here, an additional decomposition of the spectrum into standing and traveling components is described.