Computer Science
Scientific paper
Apr 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001jats...58..933c&link_type=abstract
Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 58, Issue 8, pp.933-942
Computer Science
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Scientific paper
The local preconditioning of the midtropospheric planetary-scale flow prior to the onset of a blocking episode during January 1985 is investigated. The preconditioned flow is anomalously diffluent, or characterized by anomalously negative planetary-scale, geostrophic stretching deformation. This deformation increases in magnitude with time during the transition to blocking; this tendency in turn is quasigeostrophically forced by the shape of the planetary-scale component of potential vorticity transports. In particular, the planetary-scale component of potential vorticity advection that became increasingly anticyclonic with eastward distance at a rate that increased northward near the block-onset region forced the local planetary-scale flow to become more diffluent prior to blocking. Self-interactions among the synoptic-scale waves and synoptic-to-planetary-scale interactions contributed more importantly than self-interactions among planetary-scale waves to this preconditioning. In the frequency domain, the preconditioning is primarily attributable to the interactions between low- and high-frequency components of the flow, notably to the advection of slowly varying, low potential vorticity by the high-frequency flow.
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