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Some properties of geostrophic motion
Author(s) -
Westwater F. L.
Publication year - 1944
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49707030409
Subject(s) - geostrophic wind , motion (physics) , field (mathematics) , translation (biology) , geodesy , geology , physics , classical mechanics , mechanics , mathematics , chemistry , biochemistry , messenger rna , pure mathematics , gene
The properties of a field of pressure which permits of persistent geostrophic motion (ignoring variations of density and latitude) are discussed. It is shown that it is in general impossible to separate the translation effect from the isallobaric effect when considering development of the pressure field.