1. Held 2001

Held 2001

The Partitioning of the Poleward Energy Transport between the Tropical Ocean and Atmosphere

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2017.08.09

Summary

• The ratio of the poleward energy transport in low latitudes in the two media is determined by the ratio of the atmospheric gross static stability to that of the ocean.
• It is difficult to change the partitioning of the poleward energy transport between atmosphere and ocean, as it depends only on physical constants of the system and, rather weakly, on the trop- ical surface temperatures through the moist-adiabatic lapse rate

Assignment

• ☐Czaja ans Marshall 2006