Piecewise potential vorticity inversion

CA Davis - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 1992 - journals.ametsoc.org
inversion operator for Ertel's potential vorticity renders quantitative piecewise inversion (inversion
of individual portions of the potential … the inversion operator for Ertel's potential vorticity

Potential vorticity inversion and balanced equations of motion for rotating and stratified flows

GK Vallis - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
… In the rest of this paper we directly attack the problem of constructing potentialvorticity
inversion schemes for both rapidly rotating and stratified flow-the two conditions which more …

[HTML][HTML] Potential vorticity inversion on a hemisphere

ME McIntyre, WA Norton - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2000 - journals.ametsoc.org
… This paper presents the earliest results from a program begun in 1985 to investigate the
concepts of balance, slow manifold, and potential vorticity (PV) inversion and to probe their …

Geostrophy via potential vorticity inversion in the Yucatan Channel

J Ochoa, J Sheinbaum, A Badan, J Candela, D Wilson - 2001 - elischolar.library.yale.edu
… The conservation of potential vorticity and the boundary … channel, to illustrate the potential
vorticity inversion method to infer … The fourth section compares the results of the inversion to ‘…

Potential-vorticity inversion and the wave-turbulence jigsaw: some recent clarifications

ME McIntyre - Advances in Geosciences, 2008 - adgeo.copernicus.org
… The first key idea is the invertibility principle for potential vorticity (PV). Without it, one can
hardly give a coherent account of even so important and elementary a process as Rossby-…

[PDF][PDF] Potential vorticity

ME McIntyre - Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences, 2003 - damtp.cam.ac.uk
… The two-dimensional inverse Laplacian in [14] is replaced by an inverse elliptic operator
that qualitatively resembles a three-dimensional inverse Laplacian when a stretched vertical …

Convective destabilization by a tropopause fold diagnosed using potentialvorticity inversion

M Griffiths, AJ Thorpe… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… Here we consider the dynamical reasons for such a linkage using so-called potential
vorticity (PV) attribution concepts. In particular PV inversion is used to find the wind shear …

The dynamics of a polar low assessed using potential vorticity inversion

TJ Bracegirdle, SL Gray - … Society: A journal of the atmospheric …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… The dynamics of a polar low are examined using a piecewise potential vorticity (PV)
inversion method. In previous studies of this and other polar lows, structural evolution has been …

[HTML][HTML] An application of potential vorticity inversion to improving the numerical prediction of the March 1993 superstorm

Z Huo, DL Zhang, J Gyakum - Monthly weather review, 1998 - journals.ametsoc.org
In this study, a methodology is proposed to improve the model initial conditions, based on
available surface temperature observations from ships, buoys, and drifters. It is tested with the …

[HTML][HTML] Piecewise potential vorticity inversion: Elementary tests

J Egger - Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
… using piecewise inversion (see also Hakim et al. 1996). They stated that “… potential vorticity
inversion is perhaps the most useful diagnostic application of potential vorticity inversion.” A …