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Unavoidable Errors: A Weather Warnings Perspective on Climate Attribution
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
On a Physical Mechanism for Rossby Wave Propagation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple class of barotropic Rossby waves are shown to propagate westward as the graphically balanced meridional windfield periodically reverses in response to a small meridional pressure gradient arising from the latitudinal ...
Improving the Anelastic Approximation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new diagnostic equation is presented which exhibits many advantages over the conventional forms of the anelastic continuity equation. Scale analysis suggests that use of this ?pseudo-incompressible equation? is justified ...
Pseudomomentum Diagnostics for Two-Dimensional Stratified Compressible Flow
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Expressions are derived for the local pseudomomentum density in two-dimensional compressible stratified flow and are compared with the expressions for pseudomomentum in two-dimensional Boussinesq and anelastic flow derived ...
Do Breaking Mountain Waves Deceierate the Local Mean Flow?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Numerical simulations are examined in order to determine the local mean flow response to the generation, propagation, and breakdown of two-dimensional mountain waves. Realistic and idealized cases are considered, and in ...
What Causes Weak Orographic Rain Shadows? Insights from Case Studies in the Cascades and Idealized Simulations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ecent studies have shown that weak rain shadows in the Cascade Mountains are associated with passing warm fronts, but the specific mechanisms responsible for this connection have eluded consensus. One theory holds that ...
Comments on “Gravity Wave Refraction by Three-Dimensionally Varying Winds and the Global Transport of Angular Momentum”
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Is the Coriolis Force Really Responsible for the Inertial Oscillation?
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: It is demonstrated that the inertial oscillation is not produced exclusively by ?inertial forces?, and that the inertial oscillation appears as oscillatory motion even when viewed from a nonrotating frame of reference. The ...