A Review of Potential Vorticity and Its Possible Application in the Moist Atmospheric Flow

• 作 者: Peter A. DAVIES Aijun DENG
• 机 构: LaboratoryofRotatingfluiddynamics,DepartmentofMeteorology
• 出 处: 大气和海洋科学快报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2009年1期
• 关键词: POTENTIAL VORTICITY generalized POTENTIAL vor-ticity CONVECTIVE VORTICITY vector

Potential vorticity (PV) has been served as a powerful and useful dynamic tracer for the understanding of the large-scale dynamics and synoptic variations in the atmosphere and oceans.Significant progress has been made on the application of PV.In recent d