Hydrostatic and geostrophic adjustment in a compressible atmosphere: Initial response and final equilibrium to an instantaneous localized heating

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3776-3792

  Chagnon, Jeffrey M ^a   Bannon, Peter R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; THERMAL EXPANSION;

COMPRESSIBLE ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

HEAT SOURCE; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; WAVE ENERGY;

EID: 0035894685     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<3776:HAGAIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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