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Storm tracks

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ginah@udel_edu

New Member
I am looking for the best variable to indicate stormtracks from a set of CAM runs. Is the VU, meridional flux of zonal momentum, the best variable to consider from the CAM history tapes? I was looking for an eddy flux variable but this is the most similar var I could find and I can't find any info on how it is calculated or what sign convention it uses?

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.
 
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rneale

Rich Neale
CAM Project Scientist
Staff member
Eddy kinetic energy is probably the best variable and I think you can calculate it from history files with sqrt(UU-U^2+VV-V^2). Zonal average of this is a good measure of storm track baraoclinicity
 
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