What does ageostrophic mean?
Ageostrophic means (meteorology) Not geostrophic.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(meteorology) Not geostrophic.
It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).
Note that the ageostrophic wind has both a divergent and a nondivergent part.
Ageostrophic circulations play a significant role in the kinematics and dynamics of a variety of synoptic- and mesoscale weather systems found within extratropical baroclinic wave regimes.
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Ageostrophic means (meteorology) Not geostrophic.
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It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).
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