The frontogenetical forcing of secondary circulations. Part II: Properties of Q vectors in exact linear solutions

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 244-260

  Davies Jones, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXACT SOLUTIONS; FUNCTION DECAYS; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; HORIZONTAL VORTICITIES; LINEAR SOLUTIONS; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; Q VECTORS; QUASIGEOSTROPHIC EQUATIONS; ROTATIONAL COMPONENTS; SECONDARY CIRCULATIONS; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; VERTICAL VORTICITIES; WIND FIELDS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GRANULAR MATERIALS; ISOTHERMS; VORTICITY;

VECTORS;

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRONTOGENESIS; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; VECTOR; VORTICITY;

EID: 65549114593     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAS2803.1     Document Type: Article

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