CHEN Lianshou, LUO Zhexian. 2004: A Study of the Effect of Topography on the Merging of Vortices. Adv. Atmos. Sci, 21(1): 13-22., https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02915676
Citation: CHEN Lianshou, LUO Zhexian. 2004: A Study of the Effect of Topography on the Merging of Vortices. Adv. Atmos. Sci, 21(1): 13-22., https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02915676

A Study of the Effect of Topography on the Merging of Vortices

  • Eight sets of numerical experiments are performed in 48 hours of integtation by using a barotropic primitive equation model with a topographic term so as to investigate the effect of topography on the merging of vortices.It is pointed out that the introduction of topography may change the track of vortices,and it causes the low vortices and vorticity lumps to be detained on the southeast side of the topography,thus creating a favorable condition for the merging of the low vortex and vorticity lumps.It is also shown that the effect of topography may cause double mergers of vortices in a horizontally shearing basic flow,and it can strengthen the low vortex remarkably.
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