A study on the maintenance of the winter subtropical jet streams in the northern hemisphere

Tsing-Chang Chen; Ren-Yow Tzeng; Harry Van Loon

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v40i5.11809

A study on the maintenance of the winter subtropical jet streams in the northern hemisphere

Tellus

Volume 40 (1988): Issue 5

By: Tsing-Chang Chen, Ren-Yow Tzeng and Harry Van Loon

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|Jan 1988

Abstract

Two mechanisms were previously proposed to explain the maintenance of the winter subtropical jet streams in the northern hemisphere. First, based upon the total kinetic energy budget analysis, the winter subtropical jet streams can be locally maintained by the balance between the kinetic energy generated by ageostrophic flow and the divergence of kinetic energy flux. Second, these jet streams can be maintained by the interhemispherical interaction between the atmospheric, rotational and divergent circulations. It is shown in this study that the kinetic energy budget analyses of the rotational and divergent components of the atmospheric circulation can be used to illustrate, respectively, the two aforementioned mechanisms maintaining subtropical jet streams, and also the inter-relationship between these two mechanisms.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v40i5.11809 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 392 - 397

Submitted on: Sep 23, 1987

Accepted on: Jan 5, 1988

Published on: Jan 1, 1988

Published by: Stockholm University Press

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 1988 Tsing-Chang Chen, Ren-Yow Tzeng, Harry Van Loon, published by Stockholm University Press
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