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Formation of large-scale vortices in shear flows of the lower atmosphere of the earth in the region of tropical latitudes

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The paper is devoted to studying the mechanisms of formation of cyclones in the Earth’s atmosphere with the help of numerical modeling using the complete system of gas-dynamic equations. The results of modeling have shown that cyclones can appear in horizontal stratified shear flows of warm and wet air masses with horizontal direction of gradients of the wind velocity components as a result of small disturbances of pressure which can be produced by Rossby waves.

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  1. Institute of Design Automation, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    O. M. Belotserkovskii & A. M. Oparin

  2. Polar Geophysical Institute, Kola Science Center of Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russia

    I. V. Mingalev, V. S. Mingalev & O. V. Mingalev

  3. Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    V. M. Chechetkin

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Original Russian Text © O.M. Belotserkovskii, I.V. Mingalev, V.S. Mingalev, O.V. Mingalev, A.M. Oparin, V.M. Chechetkin, 2009, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2009, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 501–514.

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Belotserkovskii, O.M., Mingalev, I.V., Mingalev, V.S. et al. Formation of large-scale vortices in shear flows of the lower atmosphere of the earth in the region of tropical latitudes. Cosmic Res 47, 466–479 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952509060033

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