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Introduction to Isentropic Coordinates: !
a new view of mean meridional & eddy circulations"
Cristiana Stan
School and Conference on “the General Circulation of the Atmosphere and Oceans: a Modern Perspective” !
July 11-15, 2011 !
ICTP-Trieste, Italy!1!
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Mean Meridional Circulation
Mechanism for the meridional transports of energy and moisture in the atmosphere
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What mathematical model do we use to represent "these observed features?"
•!The heating processes at work in the atmosphere are very complicated, and motion-
dependent. The heating is very closely related to moist processes, including cloud
formation and precipitation, radiation, and diffusion.
•!The response of the atmospheric circulation to the heating is complicated because of
the existence of eddies and their interaction with the mean flow. These eddies are
neither purely random, nor purely regular.
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Introduction"
The vertical stratification of the atmosphere can be represented using various
coordinates such as:
•!physical height, z -coordinate: height above the Earth's surface
•!pressure, p -coordinate: atmospheric pressure
•!sigma, ; where p is the air pressure and pS is the surface-air pressure
•!potential temperature, ; where T is the air temperature, p0 = 100 kPa, and
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Review of Potential Temperature Properties"
!! Physical Interpretation
is the temperature of a material element would have if it were adiabatically* expanded
(for p > p0) or compressed (for p < p0) to the reference pressure p0.
!! Materially conserved for adiabatic flow
Considering air to be an ideal gas, so that obeys the ideal gas law , then the first
law of thermodynamics can be written:
*without heating
(2)
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using the logarithm’s property , (2) can be written as
(2)
(3)
and we can write (3) as
(4)
Written in terms of potential temperature, (4) becomes
When , the flow is termed adiabatic and . Thus the potential
temperature is materially conserved* for adiabatic flow. *
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Transformation of the Quasi-static Primitive Equation "to Isentropic Coordinate "
Using the longitude , the latitude , and the physical height z as the independent spatial
coordinates, the quasi-static primitive equations for inviscid, adiabatic flow are:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
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(5)
(6)
with the material derivative:
Transformation to coordinates:
(7)
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1.!Material Derivative (7)
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2.!Continuity Equation (4)
To transform we first note that
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where the pseudo-density, is defined by
To transform we first note that hydrostatic equation (3)
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3.!Pressure Gradient Force
using definition of potential temperature we can write
using the ideal gas law we can write
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where is the Montgomery potential.
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4.!Hydrostatic equation (3)
where is the Exner function.
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The quasi-static primitive equations in isentropic coordinates
where is the pseudo-density, the Montgomery potential, the Exner function, and
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Zonal Mean
Departure from the Zonal Mean or “eddy component”
Statistics of interest
total
flux
symmetric
circulation
flux due to
eddies
Eddies
alternating trains of low and high
pressure systems moving in circular
motions in the westerly flow
push the warm air from the subtropics
poleward and cool air from high latitudes equatorward; the net effect is a
reduction of equator-to-pole
temperature gradient
transport also momentum and the eddy momentum flux influences the
zonal mean temperature
through the thermal wind balance that dominates the middle latitudes.
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The Zonal Mean Equations in Isentropic Coordinates
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Transform the quasi-static primitive equations in isentropic
coordinates
in flux form
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Define a “mass-weighted zonal mean”
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where denotes the divergence of the Eliassen-Palm flux, .
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•!heating induces a meridional circulation, i.e., implies that .
•!meridional mass convergence (divergence) requires an increase (decrease) of the upward mass flux with height in regions of cooling.
Mass stream function:
which satisfies the equations:
Mean Meridional Circulation
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Mean Meridional Mass Stream Function, Tropospheric Perspective
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Mean Meridional Mass Stream Function, Stratospheric Perspective
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Diabatic heating
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barotropic wave
baroclinic wave
pressure torque exerted by the fluid above an
isentrope on that below.