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Non-quasi-geostrophic effects in baroclinic waves with latent heat releaseA study is conducted for the non-quasi-geostrophic baroclinic wave effects in a saturated atmosphere whose vertical motion is subject to pseudo-adiabatic processes. With respect to the characteristics of energetics for the first-order solution, it is noted that, in the cases of both the dry mode and the first moist mode, the heat transport quantities due to the second-order eddy are small and opposite in sign to their respective transports. The non-quasi-geostrophic effects render the vertical motion field asymmetric in each of the regions involved and enter into the present treatment only as nonlinear terms. The moisture transport terms in the eddy-available potential energy equation is small by comparison to other individual terms in the cyclone scale motion's energetics calculation. This is consistent with the observational results of Smith (1980).
Document ID
19840060180
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Fichtl, G. H.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Tang, C.-M.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 1984
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Volume: 41
ISSN: 0022-4928
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
84A42967
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS8-34010
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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