Diagnostic studies on atmospheric budgets of water and energy based on aerological data

Eero Holopainen

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v48i5.12204

Diagnostic studies on atmospheric budgets of water and energy based on aerological data

Tellus

Volume 48 (1996): Issue 5

By: Eero Holopainen

Open Access

|Jan 1996

Abstract

This note reviews recent diagnostic studies of the atmospheric heat and moisture sources using aerological data. It appears that the large-scale features of evaporation minus precipitation, as well as of the diabatic heating of air in general, can nowadays be deduced from three-dimensional fields of aerological variables relatively accurately. However, the usefulness of the aerological method for smaller scales, e.g., those associated with the BALTEX (Baltic Sea Experiment), remains to be established.

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