Slide 1 Surface winds An air parcel initially at rest will move from high pressure to low pressure (pressure gradient force) Geostrophic wind blows parallel to the isobars…
Slide 1 Vorticity Slide 2 The Law of conservation of Vorticity Relative vorticity is defined as The time rate of change of vorticity can be written by taking the equations…
Modeling Deep Convective Zonal Flows on the Giant Planets Jonathan Aurnou UCLA Earth & Space Sciences [email protected] Cassini Image Acknowledgements Moritz Heimpel University…
Intrinsic Errors in Physical Ocean Climate Models Matthew Hecht Los Alamos National Laboratory Satellite observation of sea surface temperature Climate simulations low resolution:…
Modeling Deep Convective Zonal Flows on the Giant Planets Jonathan Aurnou UCLA Earth & Space Sciences [email protected] Cassini Image Acknowledgements Moritz Heimpel University…
Eddies in the Agulhas Current Background Info Complex 2D Fields: Analysis of Eddies in the Southern Indian Ocean Project Leader: Greta Leber Joni Lum Changheng Chen David…
Slide 1 Q-G vorticity equation Q-G thermodynamic equation We now have two equations in two unknowns, and We will solve these to find an equation for , the vertical…