On the heat balance and maintenance of circulation in the trades

✍ Scribed by H. Riehl; Joanne S. Malkus

• Book ID: 104571967
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 472 KB
• Volume: 83
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9009
• DOI: 10.1002/qj.49708335503

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The heat balance is calculated for the Pacific north‐east trade during summer and it is shown that the trade exports sensible as well as latent heat. The sensible‐heat gain is related to the surface pressure distribution; it is found that the low‐level circulation in the region considered is self‐driving.