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Global energy and moisture budgets from rawinsonde data
Savijärvi, H. I., 1988: Global energy and moisture budgets from
rawinsonde data. Monthly Weather Review, 116(2), 417-430.
Abstract: Vertically integrated budgets of moisture and energy
for the global atmosphere are presented, based on the GFDL 10-year rawinsonde
data analyses of Oort. The extratropical free atmospheric mean wind divergence
is derived from vorticity balance, and mass balance is imposed. The results
of data so modified are shown in the form of DJF and JJA maps of mean vertical
velocity, evaporation minus precipitation, mean diabatic heating, total
energy flux divergence and its potential. Also the annual poleward energy
transports are shown together with the implied oceanic transports.
The results indicate that the procedure of getting divergent winds from
vorticity balance works well at midlatitudes and produces budgets comparable
to FGGE data estimates. The results for the tropics are free of any model
assumptions such as convection schemes (which may influence data-assimilation
scheme climates as is briefly discussed) but are quite sensitive to the
lack of data over oceans.