ZONAL MEAN STRUCTURES OF THE EXTRATROPICAL TROPOSPHERE |
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Authors: | Y. L. McHall |
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Affiliation: | Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, MA 02139, USA |
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Abstract: | The study of mean circulation fields requires evaluation of eddy foreings in the atmosphere.Due to the difficulty in calculating the eddy forcings on theory,the mean state equations including the eddy forcings were used mostly for diagnostic studies only.Using the geostrophic perturbation solutions obtained by McHall (1991a),we may deal with theoretically the eddy fluxes and their convergence.This allows us to employ the mean state equations for the study of mean circulation fields.It will be found that the time averaged zonal mean structure and circulation of the troposphere at middle and high latitudes can be reproduced basically in terms of the mass and momentum balances in geostrophic wave circulations. |
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Keywords: | extratropical troposphere mean circulation fields mean state equations |
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