High Wave Activity Observed in Patagonia, Southern America: Generation by a Cyclone Passage over Andes Mountain Range

• Published in: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
• Main Authors: Pulido, Manuel Arturo, Rodas, Claudio, Dechat, Diego, Lucini, Maria Magdalena
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley
• Subjects: Orographic Waves; Patagonia; Wave Breaking; Ray Tracing; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Drake Passage; Pacific; Argentina; Nordeste; Antarc*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/8550

The Antarctic peninsula and Patagonia region (South of South America) have recently been identified as one of the regions with the highest gravity wave activity in the world. In this work, the generation and propagation of gravity waves in the Patagonia region in an event of strong wave activity fro...