up zonal or meridional in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zonal and meridional flow are directions and regions of fluid flow on a globe. Zonal flow follows...
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Troposphere (section Meridional flow)
meridional flow. When the zonal flow buckles, the atmosphere can flow in a more longitudinal (or meridional) direction, and thus the term "meridional flow" arises...
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uniquely identify the direction of flow, unlike the case in geophysics. Toroidal and poloidal Zonal and meridional Zonal flow (plasma) Zonal flow v t e...
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Thermohaline circulation (redirect from Meridional overturning circulation)
place with Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which is also affected by the ocean warming and by meltwater flows from the declining Greenland...
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Rossby wave (section Free barotropic Rossby waves under a zonal flow with linearized vorticity equation)
westerly flow, β {\displaystyle \beta } is the Rossby parameter, k is the zonal wavenumber, and ℓ is the meridional wavenumber. It is noted that the zonal phase...
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acting on a small north–south or meridional secondary circulation. Hough function Primitive equations Secondary flow Holton, James R. (2019). An introduction...
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Ocean current (redirect from Ocean flow)
regions results in the acceleration of surface zonal currents. There are suggestions that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is in danger...
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Hadley cell (section Mechanism and characteristics)
are most commonly identified using the mass-weighted, zonally-averaged stream function of meridional winds, but they can also be identified by other measurable...
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u and v are respectively the zonal and meridional currents and − f v {\displaystyle -fv} and f u {\displaystyle fu} are respectively the zonal and meridional...
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perpendicular to the flow itself, these Ekman transports contribute to the meridional branch of the NEC and SEC. However, the magnitude of the meridional component...
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