Open AccessComments on “Dynamics of Upper-Level Frontogenesis in Baroclinic Waves”
Author(s) -
A. Buzzi
Publication year - 2017
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/jas-d-16-0206.1
Subject(s) - frontogenesis , baroclinity , function (biology) , front (military) , geology , meteorology , dynamics (music) , lagrangian , physics , statistical physics , climatology , theoretical physics , mesoscale meteorology , evolutionary biology , acoustics , biology
A recent paper by Mak et al. grants the opportunity to discuss two different definitions of the frontogenetical function proposed in the literature to study the formation and evolution of upper-level fronts. This comment exposes some problems that, in this author’s opinion, are related to the use of the Lagrangian tendency of the 3D (in place of horizontal) gradient of potential temperature, as adopted in the Mak et al. paper.