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A method of determining optimum scales for averaging the earth's topography in quantitative studies of atmospheric cyclo- and anti-cyclogenesis

✍ Scribed by Nicola Godev


Publisher
Springer
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
602 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-8314

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✦ Synopsis


Abalract. A method for optimum modelling of the earth's topography, corresponding to differing meteorological phenomena, is presented.

The optimum averaging scale for mountains in terms of orographic cycle-and anti-cyclogenesis is shown to be of the order of 150 km. The use of larger or smaller averaging scales decreases the correlation between the degree of cycle-and anti-cyclogenesis and the parameters which describe the orography.

A quantitative relation between orographic cycle-and anti-cyclogenesis and the form of orography determined by the Laplacian V*Z, of the terrain function Z,, = Z&x, y) is presented.