A survey of unbalanced flow diagnostics and their application

被引：2

作者：

Fuqing Zhang

Steven E. Koch

Christopher A. Davis

Michael L. Kaplan

机构：

[1] North Carolina State University,Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

[2] National Center for Atmospheric Research,Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences

[3] North Carolina State University,undefined

[4] National Center for Atmospheric Research,undefined

来源：

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences | 2000年 / 17卷

关键词：

Unbalanced flow; Geostrophic adjustment; Gravity waves; Nonlinear balance equation; Potential vorticity inversion; Omega equations; Rossby number;

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摘要：

This paper presents an extensive survey of the most commonly used tools for diagnosing unbalanced flow in the atmosphere, namely the Lagrangian Rossby number, Psi vector, divergence equation, nonlinear balance equation, generalized omega-equation, and departure from fields obtained by potential vorticity (PV) inversion. The basic thoery, assumptions as well as implementation and limitations for each of the tools are all discussed.

引用

页码：165 / 183

页数：18

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