Potential vorticity inversion and balanced equations of motion for rotating and stratified flows

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 122, Issue 529, 1996, Pages 291-322

  Vallis, Geoffrey K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced flow; Potential vorticity inversion; Shallow water equations

Indexed keywords

MODELLING-MATHEMATICAL; ROTATING FLOW; STRATIFIED FLOW; VORTICITY;

EQUATION OF MOTION; FLOW DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; POTENTIAL VORTICITY INVERSION; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATIONS; STRATIFIED FLOW;

EID: 0029656718     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.52911     Document Type: Article

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