Bemerkung
Stationary flow near fronts
Steinacker, Reinhold; Brönnimann, Stefan
Meteorologische Zeitschrift Vol. 25 No. 6 (2016), p. 805 - 809
34 Literaturangaben
veröffentlicht: Dec 21, 2016
Online veröffentlicht: Dec 15, 2016
Manuskript akzeptiert: Oct 27, 2016
Manuskript-Revision erhalten: Oct 26, 2016
Manuskript erhalten: Oct 14, 2016
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Abstract
In 1906, the Austrian scientist Max Margules published a paper on temperature stratification in resting and non-accelerated moving air. The paper derives conditions for stationary slopes of air mass boundaries and was an important forerunner of frontal theories. Its formulation of relations between changes in density and geostrophic wind across the front is basically a discrete version of the thermal wind balance equation. The paper was highly influential and is still being cited to the present day. This paper accompanies an English translation of Margules’ seminal paper. We conclude here our “Classic Papers” series of the Meteorologische Zeitschrift.
Schlagworte
history of meteorology • thermal wind • fronts