Integral characteristics of the global wind field. 2. The intensity of westerly and easterly circulationстатья
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Аннотация:The global wind field is analyzed in terms of meridional gradients of zonal wind in both hemispheres and at various pressure surfaces. A measure of the circulation intensity is the gradient of the zonal wind velocity circulation along the latitude circle, i.e., a change in the velocity circulation of the zonal wind per 1°latitude. The intensity of the westerly circulation in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and easterly circulation in the tropics at 500 and 850 hPa is estimated for different seasons. A description of the intensity of the zonal atmospheric circulation through the gradient of the velocity circulation of zonal wind along latitude circles gives a compact method for estimating differences between the global wind fields in midlatitudes of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The circulation gradient demonstrates a complicated character of the easterly circulation in the tropics, at both 850 hPa, which cannot be found by a simple analysis of the wind fields.