Life cycles of oceanic stormtracks
1 : Meteorology Department, University of Reading
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The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, READING, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom -
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Baroclinic instability is usually assumed to be the primary mechanism for the observed enhanced meso-scale eddy activity in the oceanic stormtracks. The main objective of this work will be to present preliminary attempts at characteristing such regions in terms of a local available potential energy density framework.
| Subject : | : | oral |
| Topics | : | Waves, eddies, instabilities, intrinsic variability |
| PDF version | : |  PDF version |
