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Temperature Phase Tilt in Unstable Baroclinic Waves

Author(s) -

Che Sun

Publication year - 2007

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 - 10.1175/2007jas2405.1

Subject(s) - baroclinity , homogenization (climate) , instability , potential vorticity , vorticity , tilt (camera) , mechanics , physics , phase (matter) , vorticity equation , geology , classical mechanics , geometry , vortex , mathematics , biodiversity , ecology , quantum mechanics , biology

A general property on the phase relation in linear baroclinic instability is proved analytically: in a potential vorticity homogenization regime, the complex geometry of the quasigeostrophic equations determines that the phase lines of temperature and pressure disturbances tilt with height in opposite directions.

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