Articles | Volume 31, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-459-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-31-459-2013
Regular paper
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07 Mar 2013
Regular paper |  | 07 Mar 2013

Convective cells of internal gravity waves in the earth's atmosphere with finite temperature gradient

O. Onishchenko, O. Pokhotelov, and V. Fedun

Abstract. In this paper, we have investigated vortex structures (e.g. convective cells) of internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the earth's atmosphere with a finite vertical temperature gradient. A closed system of nonlinear equations for these waves and the condition for existence of solitary convective cells are obtained. In the atmosphere layers where the temperature decreases with height, the presence of IGW convective cells is shown. The typical parameters of such structures in the earth's atmosphere are discussed.