On the Vertical Structure of Disturbances in a Baroclinic Atmosnhere

Matsumoto, Seiichi

doi:10.2467/mripapers1950.7.3_179

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“…The method was also applied to the stability problem by Charney (1951) and Kuo (1953 It was observed that the northsouth wind speed increases linearly up to 200-mb level and then decreases for winter and summer seasons over the North American continent and also over Japan (Matsumoto, 1956 as the mean value of Q, any physical quantity and…”

Section: Val 37 No 2 1959mentioning

confidence: 99%

Stability Properties of Large-scale Baroclinic Disturbances in a Vertically and Horizontally Variable Zonal Current

Aihara

1959

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

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The changes of energies of the mean flow with the vertical and horizontal shears and a superimposed disturbance are discussed, using the quasigeostrophic vorticity equation.Stability properties of the simple baroclinic atmosphere which is made up from the northern hemispheric" data after Starr and White (1954) are investigated by means of the so-called "energy method ". The direction of the energy flow is examined for various ranges of the disturbance wave length. It is found that amounts of increase of the kinetic energy of the mean flow due to non-linear interaction seem to be sufficient to overcome those which are continuously exhausted within the friction layer near the ground.The unstable baroclinic disturbance tends to produce the poleward and upward transport of sensible heat, and simultaneously the intensity of the zonal current is strengthened by concentration of eddy zonal momentum due to the presence of the latitudinal variation of the mean flow.

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Section: Val 37 No 2 1959mentioning

confidence: 99%