Using sequences of Voyager 1 high-resolution images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) and White Oval BC we map the flow fields within the GRS and Oval BC. We compute relative vorticity within these features as a function of semi-major axis length and position angle in a coordinate system consisting of concentric ellipses of equal eccentricity. Both the velocity and the relative vorticity profil...

Diffusive eddy closure theory for estimating the poleward heat flux is reexamined and tested in the context of a two-layer homogeneous model. Consideration of the inverse energy cascade induced by baroclinic turbulence on the b plane leads to an expression for diffusivity in terms of the kinetic energy dissipation and the b effect. A key step in the closure is the identification of this diffusi...

Linear stability analysis is used to investigate instability mechanisms for a horizontally oriented hyperbolic tangent mixing layer with uniform stable stratification and coordinate system rotation about the vertical axis. The important parameters governing inviscid dynamics are maximum shear S, buoyancy frequency N, angular velocity of rotation Ω and characteristic shear thickness L. Growth ra...

The Model for Ozone and Related chemical Tracers-2 (MOZART-2) is used to examine the evolution of pollutant O3 in the upper troposphere over the Indian region. Vertical profiles of ozone mixing ratio retrieved from Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) aboard Earth Observing System (EOS) AURA satellite for the period 2005–2009 and Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) aboard (EOS) AURA for the period...

This research assesses the influences of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) on global tropical cyclones (TCs) using two large ensembles idealized climate model simulations with opposite signs AMV forcings superimposed (i.e., AMV+ and AMV–). We first detect TCs then compare TC activity by basin in experiments. find contrasting responses Pacific frequency to anomalies. Compared AMV–, signifi...

[1] The modification of near‐surface near‐inertial oscillations (NIOs) by the geostrophic vorticity is studied globally from an observational standpoint. Surface drifter are used to estimate NIO characteristics. Despite its spatial resolution limits, altimetry is used to estimate the geostrophic vorticity. Three characteristics of NIOs are considered: the relative frequency shift with respect t...

The hydrodynamic model of electron transport in semiconductors is analyzed and, in analogy with vortices in fluid mechanics, the curl of electron velocity is defined as electron vorticity, and the transport equation for the electron vorticity is derived. Aside from the classical hydrodynamic sources of vorticity, collision terms in the continuity and momentum equations are identified as sources...

Shipboard acoustic Doppler current profiler and conductivity-temperaturedepth data obtained during highly stratified conditions in the Hudson River estuary along a section of variable width and breadth are presented. The observations emphasize tidal period asymmetries in the vertical structure of current and salinity. However, these asymmetries exhibit significant along-channel structure which ...