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This concept has been deprecated.

Preferred term

northward_eliassen_palm_flux  

Definition

  • "Eliassen Palm flux" is a widely used vector in the meridional plane, and the divergence of this flux appears as a forcing in the Transformed Eulerian mean formulation of the zonal mean zonal wind equation. "Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward).

Note

  • deprecated

URI

https://vocab.met.no/CFSTDN/northward_eliassen_palm_flux

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