Questions tagged [atmospheric-circulation]
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Is it possible for a sting jet to form over a continental landmass?
Sting jets are thought to be responsible for some of the most damaging winds associated with extratropical cyclones in the mid-latitudes. So far they have only been confirmed in the European region, ...
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What has been going on in the atmosphere over the past couple weeks?
First there was a once-a-century bomb cyclone 2000 miles wide that froze the entire Eastern US. Gigantic US winter storm leaves millions without power and cancels holiday plans
Then Europe had a ...
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Forced shallow-water equation with diabatic heating as the source term
How to obtain the divergence of velocity field $\left(\nabla.\mathbf{u}\right)$ with ${Q}$ (something proportional to the diabatic heating rate) as the source term from the thermodynamic equation?
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Physics based circulation models
How useful are physics based models when considering circulations at synoptic scales? Are they useful? Can we not make predictions, observe trends based on data alone? I am studying A.E.Gill's model ...
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Book on atmosphere dynamics
I plan to study a good introductory book on atmospheric dynamics:
which one is more recommended? My background is a university degree in physics, but I'm new to meteorology.
An Introduction to
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Initiation of Rossby waves during MJO
I am trying to understand the basic dynamics of MJO, where I find several studies which relate it to the initiation of equatorial Rossby and Kelvin waves. Though MJO is an eastward propagating wave, I ...
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For fine particles to get dispersed throughout the globe via atmospheric circulation, in what level of the atmosphere would they have to travel?
For molecular-sized particles to disperse around the entire planet, would they have to reach the stratosphere, or could air currents in the troposphere distribute them? Are particles dispersed ...
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Why does cloud cover seem to "ride" a wave that propagates westward near the equator in this video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRbeGc_6zM
Notice that the cloud cover over Africa and South America is correlated in a way that seems to be highlighting some kind of large-scale easterly wave ...
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Application of vorticity tendency equation
I have a question about the dynamics of westward propagating vortices.
In meteorology, the vorticity tendency is often used to explain the westward propagation of vortices (cyclonic circulation).
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Internal energy, enthalpy, and work in the atmosphere
I'm writing a toy radiative-convective atmospheric model and need to relate the heat flux convergences (either surface sensible heat flux or the radiative flux) to changes in atmospheric layer ...
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Compute upwind flux for gridded data
I'm trying to compute something called the "Drying Ratio" following: Eidhammer, 2018
The drying ratio is the ratio of the precipitation to the incoming vapor flux. So,
$DR = \frac{F_{in} - ...
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How should one even try to start thinking about quantifying the total emissions footprint for the planet?
I was recently reading a paper in which nine planetary boundaries have been proposed. The paper uses modeling and literature assessment to quantify safe and just Earth system boundaries (ESBs) for ...