The relationship between the speed and the latitude of an eddy-driven jet in a stirred barotropic model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3250-3263

  Kidston, Joseph ^a,b   Vallis, G K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barotropic flows; Dynamics; Nonlinear dynamics; Rossby waves; Waves; atmospheric

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VORTICITY; BAROTROPIC; BAROTROPIC MODELS; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERMODEL VARIABILITY; POLEWARD SHIFT; ROSSBY WAVE; VORTICITY GRADIENTS; WIND SPEED;

OCEAN CURRENTS; VORTICITY; WIND EFFECTS;

DYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BAROTROPIC MODE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; EDDY; JET STREAM; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; ROSSBY WAVE; VORTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84871969509     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-11-0300.1     Document Type: Article

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