Diagnostics of the Heat Sources and Sinks of the Asiatic Monsoon and the Thermally-Forced Planetary Scale Response.
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide a descriptive analysis of the planetary scale isentropic mass circulation and energy transport forced by the global distribution of differential heating and to establish a link between mass circulation, energy transport and boundary processes in the satisfaction of global energy balance. Some insight into the global distribution of heating will be provided from the patterns of mass and energy transport, although at the time of preparation of this paper, explicit computations of the diabatic heating have not been completed. In the earlier work of Zillman (1972) and Otto (1974), planetary scale mass circulations associated with the irrotational mode of mass transport were determined from the climatological distribution of diabatic heating. While the fields of the irrotational mode in their work and ours are similar, a detailed comparative discussion of quantitative results has not been included due to the time constraint for completion of this paper for the Bergen Conference. (Author).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1981
- Accession Number
- ADA119755
Entities
People
- Donald R. Johnson
- Ronald D. Townsend
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology