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Potential Vorticity Conservation

Potential Vorticity Conservation is a geophysical fluid dynamics principle that identifies the invariant of potential vorticity—a quantity combining absolute vorticity and stratification-relative vertical stretch—following the motion of air or water parcels in adiabatic and frictionless flow.

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A unified approach to energy conservation and potential vorticity dynamics for arbitrarily-structured C-grids

Todd D. Ringler, John Thuburn, Joseph B. Klemp et al. · Journal of Computational Physics · 2009 · 354 citations

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Chaotic transport by Rossby waves in shear flow

D. del-Castillo-Negrete, P.J. Morrison · Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics · 1993 · 273 citations

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On the Conservation and Impermeability Theorems for Potential Vorticity

Peter Haynes, M. E. McIntyre · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1990 · 271 citations · Full text

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An Alternative Form for Potential Vorticity

Leslie R. Lait · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1994 · 242 citations · Full text

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Uniform Potential Vorticity Flow: Part I. Theory of Wave Interactions and Two-Dimensional Turbulence

William Blumen · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1978 · 217 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. PR
    Peter R. Bannon

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    4 publications · 77 citations

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  2. ÁV
    Álvaro Viúdez

    Institut de Ciències del Mar, Spain

    3 publications · 52 citations

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  3. CS
    Christoph Schär

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    3 publications · 322 citations

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  4. GJ
    G. J. F. van Heijst

    Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

    3 publications · 47 citations

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  5. LZ
    L. Zavala Sansón

    Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Mexico

    2 publications · 32 citations

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Institutions

89

  1. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    283 citations

  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography

    La Jolla, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    347 citations

  3. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    608 citations

  4. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    348 citations

  5. Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique

    Palaiseau, France

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    194 citations

  6. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    241 citations

  7. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    96 citations

  8. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    798 citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    20 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 9 publications · 373 citations

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  3. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    8 publications · 256 citations

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  4. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    7 publications · 162 citations

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  5. Journal of Marine Research

    5 publications · 138 citations

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