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A PRACTICAL, BASIC GUIDE TO QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC THEORY RESPONSE TO GEOSTROPHIC DEFORMATION AGEOSTROPHIC MOTION JET STREAKS TED FUNK Science and Operations Officer National Weather Service Louisville, Kentucky February 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS SUBJECT PAGE QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC momentum equations .. Mass continuity equation .. QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC vorticity equation .. QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC thermodynamic equation .. QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC height tendency equation .. QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC omega equation .. Alternative QG omega equation approach: Trenberth method .. Alternative QG omega equation approach: Q Vector method .. Atmospheric response to geostrophic deformation .. Jet streak basics and vertical motion patterns.
negative. Therefore, from Equation 8, the geostrophic relative vorticity is inversely related to the height field, i.e., when (height) is a maximum (minimum) in a ridge (trough) axis, then relative vorticity is a minimum (maximum). This makes sense! Using …
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