
Planetary-Scale Preconditioning for the Onset of Blocking
Author(s) -
Stephen J. Colucci
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of the atmospheric sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.853
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1520-0469
pISSN - 0022-4928
DOI - 10.1175/1520-0469(2001)058<0933:pspfto>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - vorticity , potential vorticity , advection , geostrophic wind , geology , blocking (statistics) , anticyclone , zonal flow (plasma) , scale (ratio) , mechanics , geophysics , climatology , atmospheric sciences , physics , vortex , mathematics , plasma , quantum mechanics , tokamak , thermodynamics , statistics