Climate and Forecast Standard Names
type: ConceptScheme
has top concept: upward_eliassen_palm_flux

upward_eliassen_palm_flux
type: Concept
top concept of: Climate and Forecast Standard Names
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. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward).
deprecated: true
note: deprecated
source: cf-standard-name-table.html
is replaced by: upward_eliassen_palm_flux_in_air
in scheme: Climate and Forecast Standard Names

upward_eliassen_palm_flux_in_air
type: Concept