Question

A surface system with a horizontal wind speed of 75 ms^-1 and a radius of curvature of 0.4 km is observed in the atmosphere at 35

Answer 1

a).

The Rossby number (Ro and not R_o) is defined as:

where U and L are, respectively, characteristic velocity and length scales of the phenomenon and f = 2 ? sin ? is theCoriolis frequency, where ? is the angular frequency of planetary rotation and ? the latitude.

b).

The algorithm for pressure gradient force per mass of air (in the x-direction) is:

c).

vertical direction