Simple models of tropical plumes /
2000 km long that cross 15' latitude. The simplest
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | 2000 km long that cross 15' latitude. The simplest balance with the large scale height field. This smaller conditions that lead to tropical plume development are sought convergence/divergence dipole equatorward of 15'N straddling entrance to the east. It is found that these features can evolution is highly sensitive to the locations of these two features relative to each other and to the planetary features sought are: (1) a subtropical trough along the forced synoptic scale waves as the subtropical jet moves out forcing creates a large scale trough, bending the subtropical imposed mass convergence in the tropics. However, the in a barotropic model simulating winter 200 mb flow. The jet emanating from the plume source region, (3) a jet into the deep tropics. As the jet leaves the tropics on largely a consequence of quasigeostrophic adjustment of of the tropical forcing region. The plume development takes place in two stages. First, mass removal by the convergent result from just a zonally symmetric subtropical jet near scale wave, which is highly transient, is the tropical plume. the east side of the trough, a smaller synoptic scale Rossby the trough axis, with the divergence center at the jet Tropical plumes are upper and mid-level cloud bands at least vorticity field. The development of the tropical plume is wave train forms as the subtropical jet attempts to come into western edge of the plume, (2) an anticyclonically curving |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Meteorology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 71 leaves : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |