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Project Jet Stream Research Flight No. 30, April 1957
Author(s) -
Reiter E. R.
Publication year - 1961
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.49708737306
Subject(s) - jet stream , jet (fluid) , geostrophic wind , wind shear , meteorology , potential vorticity , geology , vorticity , geodesy , environmental science , wind speed , vortex , atmospheric sciences , physics , climatology , mechanics
An analysis is made of Project Jet Stream Research Flight No. 30, conducted on 8 April 1957. This flight made several traverses through a pronounced jet stream over the New England States. The fields of wind speed, potential temperature, vorticity and divergence are presented in vertical cross‐sections. Special reference is made to the differences between geostrophic and actual vertical wind shear in the vicinity of the jet core.