Dynamic Meteorology

All motions in the atmosphere connected with weather are formed as a result of heating from the sun. The atmosphere acts as a kind of heat engine, continually converting heat into mechanical energy; and mechanical energy is in turn converted back to heat by frictional dissipation. This indicates that neither pure hydrodynamics, nor pure thermodynamics suffices to explain the motions in the atmosphere; the appropriate science is a combination of both, which is called " physical hydrodynamics".KeywordsPotential VorticityMeridional CirculationGeostrophic WindFriction LayerEddy FluxThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.