Wind shear at tilted inversions

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 1991 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Boundary-Layer Meteorology, volume 57, pages 295-308 (issn: 0006-8314, eissn: 1573-1472,

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Authors: Burghard Brümmer;

doi: 10.1007/bf00120890

Wind shear at tilted inversions

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Vertical wind shear at a temperature inversion can be caused by baroclinicity associated with a tilt of the inversion. Four observational cases of tilted inversions are presented. The tilts on horizontal scales of 20–100 km range from 2–10 × 10-3 and the vertical wind shear is between 1 and 25 m/s per 100 m. In general, there is remarkable agreement between observed and geostrophic wind shear.

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