Tropical large-scale circulations: asymptotically non-divergent?

Jun-Ichi Yano; Sandrine Mulet; Marine Bonazzola

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00397.x

Tropical large-scale circulations: asymptotically non-divergent?

Tellus

Volume 61 (2009): Issue 3

By: Jun-Ichi Yano, Sandrine Mulet and Marine Bonazzola

Open Access

|Jan 2009

Betts , A. K. 1986 . A new convective adjustment scheme, part I: ob-servational and theoretical basis . Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc . 112 , 677 – 691 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Bender , C. M. and Orszag , S. A. 1978 . Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers , McGraw-Hill , New York , 593 pp .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Biello , J. B. and Majda , A. J. 2005 . A new multiscale model for the Madden-Julian oscillation . J. Atmos. Sci . 62 , 1694 – 1721 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Charney , J. G. 1963 . A note on large-scale motions in the tropics . J. Atmos. Sci . 20 , 607 – 609 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Ciesielski , P. E. , Hartten , L. M. and Johnson , R. H. 1997 . Impacts of merging profiler and rawinsonde winds on Toga COARE analyses . J. of Atmos. Ocean. Tech . 14 , 1264 – 1279 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Frank , W. M. and McBride , J. L. 1989 . The vertical distribution of heating in AMEX and GATE cloud clusters . J. Atmos. Sci . 46 , 3464 – 3478 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Gill , A. E. 1980 . Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circu-lation . Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc . 106 , 447 – 462 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Haertel , P. 2002 . Spurious divergence within objective analyses with application to TOGA COARE heat and moisture budget. In: Proceedgins of the 25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 29 April-3 May 2002, San Diego, CA.
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Holton , J. R. 2004 . An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology 4th Edition , ( International Geophysical Series Volume 88 ) Academic Press, San Diego .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Hoskins , B. J. , McIntyre , M. E. and Robertson , A. W. 1985 . On the use and significance of isentropic potential voracity maps. Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc . 111 , 877 - 946 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Majda , A. J. and Klein , R. 2003 . Systematic multiscale models for the tropics . J. Atmos. Sci . 60 , 393 – 408 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Mapes , B. E. and Houze , R. A. 1995 . Diabatic divergence profiles in Western Pacific mesoscale convection systems . J. Atmos. Sci . 52 , 1807 – 1828 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Mapes , B. E. , Ciesielslci , P. E. and Johanson , R. H. 2003 . Sampling errors in rawinsonde-array budgets . J. Atmos. Sci . 60 , 2697 – 2714 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Nuss , W. A. and Titley , D. W. 1994 . Use of multiquadric interpolation for meteorological objective analysis . Mon. Wea. Rev . 22 , 1611 – 1631 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Pedlosky , J. 1987 . Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 2nd Editoin , Springer-Verlag , New York , 710 pp .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Rhines , P. B. 1975 . Waves and turbulence on a fl-plane . J. Fluid Mech . 69 , 417 – 443 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Sardeshmulch , P. D. and Hoskins , B. J. 1987 . On the derivation of the divergence flow from therotational flow: the x problem . Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc . 113 , 339 – 360 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Schiff , L. I. 1968 . Quantum Mechanics 2nd Edition . McGraw-Hill , New York , 544 pp .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Sobel , A. H. , Nilsson , J. and Polvani , L. M. 2001 . The weak tempera-ture gradient approximation and balanced tropical moisture waves. J. Atmos. Sci . 58 , 3650 - 3665 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Webster , P. and Lukas , R. 1992 . TOGA COARE: the coupled ocean—atmosphere response experiment. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc . 73 , 1377 - 1416 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Wheeler , M. and Kiladis , G. N. 1999 . Convectively coupled equato-rial waves: Analysis of clouds and temperature in the wavenumber—frequency domain . J. Atmos. Sci . 56 , 374 – 399 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Yanai , M. S. , Esbensen , S. and Chu , J. H. 1973 . Determination of bulk properties of tropical cloud clusters from large-scale heat and moisture budgets. J. Atmos. Sci . 30 , 611 - 627 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Yanai , M. , Chen , B. and Tung , W.-W. 2000 . The Madden—Julian oscilla-tion observed during the TOGA COARE IOP: global view . J. Atmos. Sci . 57 , 2374 – 2396 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Yano , J.-I. 1992 . Asymptotic theory of thermal convection in the rapidly rotating systems. J. Fluid Mech . 243 , 103 - 131 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Yano , J. I. 2001 . Residual cumulus parameterization . Quart. J. Roy. MeteoroL Soc . 127 , 1261 – 1276 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Yano , J.-I. , Fraedrich , K. and Blender , R. 2001 . Tropical convective variability as 1 /f-noise. J. Clim . 14 , 3608 - 3616 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article
Yano , J.-I. , Blender , R. , Zhang , C. and Fraedrich , K. 2004. If noise and pulse-like events in the tropical atmospheric surface variabilities . Quart. J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc . 300 , 1697– 1721 .
Search in Google Scholar Back to article

Authors

Metrics

Articles in this issue

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2008.00397.x | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

Journal RSS Feed

Language: English

Page range: 417 - 427

Submitted on: Mar 10, 2008

Accepted on: Jan 27, 2009

Published on: Jan 1, 2009

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2009 Jun-Ichi Yano, Sandrine Mulet, Marine Bonazzola, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 61 (2009): Issue 3