Hayashi, Y., and D. G. Golder, 1978: The generation of equatorial transient planetary waves: control experiments with a GFDL general circulation model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 35 (11), 2068-2082.
Abstract: In order to study the generation of transient planetary waves in the tropics,
the effects of topography, midlatitude disturbances and condensational heat
are eliminated one by one from a GFDL general circulation model during the
period June and July. The time development and three-dimensional propagation
of waves are examined by a space-time spectral analysis using the maximum
entropy method.
It is found that the characteristic scale and period of Kelvin and mixed
Rossby-gravity waves do not depend on land-sea contrast or the zonal variation
of sea surface temperature. Even if midlatitude disturbances are eliminated,
both these waves appear in the stratosphere due to the effect of latent
heat release in the troposphere. In contrast to Kelvin waves, however, mixed
Rossby-gravity waves can be significantly intensified by westward moving
midlatitude disturbances which are found to propagate intermittently toward
the equator.