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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-1-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-4-1-2023
Research article
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03 Jan 2023
Research article |  | 03 Jan 2023

The global atmospheric energy transport analysed by a wavelength-based scale separation

Patrick Johannes Stoll, Rune Grand Graversen, and Gabriele Messori

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The atmosphere is in motion and hereby transporting warm, cold, moist, and dry air to different climate zones. In this study, we investigate how this transport of energy organises in different manners. Outside the tropics, atmospheric waves of sizes between 2000 and 8000 km, which we perceive as cyclones from the surface, transport most of the energy and moisture poleward. In the winter, large-scale weather situations become very important for transporting energy into the polar regions.
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