Vortex-vortex interactions for the maintenance of blocking. part II: Numerical experiments

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 743-766

  Yamazaki, Akira ^a   Itoh, Hisanori ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barotropic flows; Blocking; Eddies; Feedback; Nonlinear dynamics; Potential vorticity

Indexed keywords

BAROTROPIC FLOWS; BLOCKING; EDDIES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; SELECTIVE ABSORPTION; VORTEX-VORTEX INTERACTION;

DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK; MAINTENANCE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING; BAROTROPIC MOTION; EDDY; JET STREAM; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STORM TRACK; VORTEX FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 84874974782     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0132.1     Document Type: Article

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