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Potential Vorticity Generation

Potential Vorticity Generation is the process by which gradients in buoyancy and wind fields, through diabatic heating and frictional forces, induce changes in the absolute vorticity advected by fluid parcels, thereby producing anomalies in the conserved quantity known as potential vorticity within the framework of geophysical fluid dynamics.

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Surface quasi-geostrophic dynamics

Isaac M. Held, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Stephen T. Garner et al. · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1995 · 583 citations

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Warm Conveyor Belts in the ERA-Interim Dataset (1979–2010). Part I: Climatology and Potential Vorticity Evolution

Erica Madonna, Heini Wernli, Hanna Joos et al. · Journal of Climate · 2013 · 485 citations · Full text

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Homogenization of potential vorticity in planetary gyres

Peter B. Rhines, W. R. Young · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1982 · 420 citations

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A Potential Vorticity-Based Study of the Role of Diabatic Heating and Friction in a Numerically Simulated Baroclinic Cyclone

Mark T. Stoelinga · Monthly Weather Review · 1996 · 362 citations · Full text

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The role of potential vorticity in symmetric stability and instability

Brian J. Hoskins · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 1974 · 358 citations

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    Wayne H. Schubert

    Colorado State University, United States

    7 publications · 430 citations

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  2. IM
    Isaac M. Held

    NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

    6 publications · 918 citations

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  3. LF
    Lance F. Bosart

    University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

    6 publications · 263 citations

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  4. MT
    Michael T. Montgomery

    Naval Postgraduate School, United States

    6 publications · 370 citations

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    Heini Wernli

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    5 publications · 774 citations

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  1. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    14 h-index

    28 publications

    2.1K citations

  2. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    14 h-index

    16 publications

    1.8K citations

  3. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    12 h-index

    39 publications

    4.4K citations

  4. University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    11 h-index

    16 publications

    616 citations

  5. Institute of Atmospheric Physics

    Beijing, China

    10 h-index

    30 publications

    776 citations

  6. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    10 h-index

    26 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    9 h-index

    29 publications

    716 citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    815 citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

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  3. Monthly Weather Review

    26 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

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