Climate and Forecast Standard Names
upward_eliassen_palm_flux
"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. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward).
deprecated
upward_eliassen_palm_flux_in_air