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Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamical Processes

Basic Principles and a Case Study

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Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Neutral Atmospheres

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Fundamentals of eddies and atmospheric circulation are briefly presented. Atmospheric circulation patterns, the large-scale general circulation and diagnostic techniques for characterizing atmospheric flow, such as Transformed Eulerian framework, are discussed. Basic features of general circulation models are introduced and their application in studying atmospheric circulation and coupling processes are illustrated in the context of sudden stratospheric warmings and atmospheric gravity wave propagation and dissipation.

The motion of the surface of water resembles the behaviour of hair, which has two motions, of which one depends on the weight of the strands, the other on the line of its revolving; thus water makes revolving eddies, one part of which depends upon the impetus of the principle current, and the other depends on the incident and reflected motions.

—Leonardo da Vinci (16th century A.D.)

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Yiğit, E. (2015). Atmospheric Circulation and Dynamical Processes. In: Atmospheric and Space Sciences: Neutral Atmospheres. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21581-5_6

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