Motion and structure of atmospheric mesoscale baroclinic vortices: Dry air and weak environmental shear

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 701, Issue , 2012, Pages 137-170

  Päschke, Eileen ^a   Marschalik, Patrik ^b   Owinoh, Antony Z ^c   Klein, Rupert ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

atmospheric flows; meteorology; quasi geostrophic flows

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; HURRICANES; METEOROLOGY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STORMS; TROPICS;

ASYMMETRIC POTENTIAL; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; ATMOSPHERIC VORTICES; LOCAL INDUCTION APPROXIMATIONS; MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; MOTION AND STRUCTURE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOWS; SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE;

VORTEX FLOW;

BAROCLINIC MOTION; HEATING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ROSSBY NUMBER; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY; WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84864208864     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2012.144     Document Type: Article

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