ageostrophic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a- + geostrophic.
Adjective
[edit]ageostrophic (not comparable)
- (meteorology) Not geostrophic
- 2004, Zhu Xun, Li Xiaofan, Cai Ming, Observation, Theory And Modeling Of Atmospheric Variability, →ISBN, page 13:
- It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).
- 2004, James R. Holton, An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 179:
- Note that the ageostrophic wind has both a divergent and a nondivergent part.
- 2015, Melyvn Shapiro, The Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones, →ISBN, page 239:
- Ageostrophic circulations play a significant role in the kinematics and dynamics of a variety of synoptic- and mesoscale weather systems found within extratropical baroclinic wave regimes.