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9.3 EXERCISES
9.1. What are the units of water vapor moisture flux convergence?
9.2. Use
Figures 2.25
and
2.28
to quantify the role of the Hadley circulation
in the water balance of an atmospheric column in (a) the tropics; (b) the
subtropics.
9.3. Show that in midlatitudes, with geostrophic flow, Eq. 9.10 can be
approximated as
z
TOP
#
v
PE v dz
0
−=−
ρ
$
d
.
h
Note all assumptions you make in the approximation.
