Development of an idealised downstream cyclone: Eulerian and Lagrangian perspective on the kinetic energy

Lukas Papritz; Sebastian Schemm

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v65i0.19539

Development of an idealised downstream cyclone: Eulerian and Lagrangian perspective on the kinetic energy

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By: Lukas Papritz and Sebastian Schemm

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Language: English

Page range: 19539 - 19539

Submitted on: Aug 14, 2012

Accepted on: Feb 15, 2013

Published on: Dec 1, 2013

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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Keywords:

idealised extratropical cyclone,

local energetics,

downstream development,

low-level jet,

baroclinic wave,

energy dispersion,

three-dimensional ageostrophic geopotential fluxes

© 2013 Lukas Papritz, Sebastian Schemm, published by Stockholm University Press
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