The Hadley circulation and the weak temperature gradient approximation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1744-1752

  Polvani, L M ^a   Sobel, A H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GRADIENT METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; VISCOSITY;

WEAK TEMPERATURE GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; HADLEY CELL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 0037094574     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<1744:THCATW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. On large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres
2. A simple model of nonlinear Hadley circulation with an ITCZ: Analytic and numerical solutions
3. The dependence of the Hadley circulation on the thermal relaxation time
4. Time-dependent nonlinear Hadley circulation
5. Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circulation
6. Response of the Hadley circulation to convective forcing in the ITCZ
7. Nonlinear axially symmetric circulations in a nearly inviscid atmosphere
8. A barotropic model of the interaction between the Hadley cell and a Rossby wave
9. Non-axisymmetric thermally driven circulations and upper tropospheric monsoon dynamics
10. Hadley circulation for zonally averaged heating centered off the equator
11. Simple model for surface stress and low-level flow in the tropical atmosphere driven by prescribed heating
12. The response of a zonally symmetric atmosphere to subtropical thermal forcing: Threshold behavior
13. Hadley circulations in radiative-convective equilibrium in an axially symmetric atmosphere
14. Axially symmetric steady-state models of the basic state for instability and climate studies. Part II. Nonlinear calculations
15. Simplified model of the modified Hadley circulation
16. Axially symmetric steady-state models of the basic state for instability and climate studies. Part I. Linearized calculations
17. Modeling tropical precipitation in a single column
18. The weak temperature gradient approximation and balanced tropical moisture waves