Geostrophic regimes on a sphere and a beta plane

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Jun 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985jats...42.1237w&link_type=abstract

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (ISSN 0022-4928), vol. 42, June 15, 1985, p. 1237-1243.

Computer Science

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Geostrophic Wind, Planetary Atmospheres, Shallow Water, Solar Orbits, Spheres, Vorticity, Advection, Coriolis Effect, Geopotential, Primitive Equations, Rossby Regimes

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A general geostrophic equation is derived for a shallow layer of fluid on a sphere. This equation encompasses the planetary, intermediate, and quasi-forms of geostrophy and produces their equations directly when the appropriate parametric ordering relationships are chosen. The three regimes have proven useful for defining and describing oceanic and Jovian eddies and currents on the planetary, intermediate and synoptic scales respectively. The general geostrophic equation may be most useful in describing the interactions among these three different regimes of motion and between motions in high and low latitudes. The accuracy of the beta-plane version of these equations is also examined in detail.

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