Kinetic energy spectra of divergent wind in the atmosphere

Tsing-Chang Chen; Joseph J. Tribbia

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v33i1.10698

Kinetic energy spectra of divergent wind in the atmosphere

Tellus

Volume 33 (1981): Issue 1

By: Tsing-Chang Chen and Joseph J. Tribbia

Open Access

|Jan 1981

Abstract

Spectral analysis of kinetic energy of the divergent wind in the zonal wave number domain has been performed using the National Meteorological Center wind field of January 1979. It is shown that the kinetic energy spectrum of the divergent wind in the high wavenumber regime (8 ≤ l ≤ 18) follows a −2 power law.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v33i1.10698 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 102 - 104

Submitted on: Jun 11, 1980

Accepted on: Aug 21, 1980

Published on: Jan 1, 1981

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1981 Tsing-Chang Chen, Joseph J. Tribbia, published by Stockholm University Press
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Volume 33 (1981): Issue 1