Pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic.
A theoretical relationship between the variance of height (geopotential) and the variance of the geostrophic wind was tested in the Arctic at 500 mb. As had been expected, a high correlation was found to exist between these two quantities although the form of the relationship (linear in the logarith...
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ftcanadathes:oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.111446 2023-05-15T14:47:47+02:00 Pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic. Macfarlane, Mona. A. Hare, F. (Supervisor) Master of Science. (Department of Geography.) 1958 application/pdf http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111446 en eng McGill University alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN Theses scanned by McGill Library. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=111446 All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. Geography Electronic Thesis or Dissertation 1958 ftcanadathes 2014-02-16T00:59:55Z A theoretical relationship between the variance of height (geopotential) and the variance of the geostrophic wind was tested in the Arctic at 500 mb. As had been expected, a high correlation was found to exist between these two quantities although the form of the relationship (linear in the logarithms of the standard deviations of height and wind) was totally unexpected. The Arctic data from previous papers, concerned with the relationship between the time variances of height and wind, were then reanalysed and the relationship between them was found to be of the same form as for the space variances. In both cases the standard error of estimate was too large to be able to calculate accurately the wind variance from the height variance, but the relationships do allow climatological estimates of the mean kinetic energy and the size of the dominant wave systems. Thesis Arctic Theses Canada/Thèses Canada (Library and Archives Canada) Arctic |
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A theoretical relationship between the variance of height (geopotential) and the variance of the geostrophic wind was tested in the Arctic at 500 mb. As had been expected, a high correlation was found to exist between these two quantities although the form of the relationship (linear in the logarithms of the standard deviations of height and wind) was totally unexpected. The Arctic data from previous papers, concerned with the relationship between the time variances of height and wind, were then reanalysed and the relationship between them was found to be of the same form as for the space variances. In both cases the standard error of estimate was too large to be able to calculate accurately the wind variance from the height variance, but the relationships do allow climatological estimates of the mean kinetic energy and the size of the dominant wave systems. |
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Pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic. |
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Pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic. |
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Pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic. |
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Pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic. |
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pressure-contour variance and kinetic energy over the arctic. |
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