The application of the thermal wind equation to daily analysed data provides the basis for computed ageostrophic wind fields. The numerical integration used in computing the geostrophic wind avoided any subjectivity but led frequently to an upward amplification of the error field. The study shows the tropopause and the jet streams as generators of strong ageostrophic wind. The same equation applied to mean data shows a general long period geostrophic balance, but there are signiticant seasonal differences and the tropopause remains a permanent zone of ageostrophic wind. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.116542 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Lalfamme, Jean Noel. |
| Contributors | Boville, B. W. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Meteorology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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