Synoptic Features and Energetics of Wave-Amplitude Vacillation in a Rotating, Differentially-Heated Fluid
- 1 April 1974
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Vol. 31 (3) , 622-645
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1974)031<0622:sfaeow>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Wave-amplitude vacillation in a thermally driven, rotating cylindrical annulus of fluid is studied using temperature and speed data from a 98-probe network of tiny bead thermistors suspended in the fluid. Mid-depth synoptic charts and estimates of heat and momentum fluxes, spectral characteristics and energetics are presented as a function of time. Relationships to time-dependent atmospheric phenomena are discussed. A section is included which deals with the effects of probes.Keywords
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