Summary
Preliminary estimates of energy fluxes by mean meridional circulations are presented for the Southern Hemisphere. Total diabatic heating has been obtained by assuming balance between the divergence of energy flux and heating. Diabatic heating shows essentially a four latitude belt pattern with heating in the tropics and middle latitudes and cooling in the subtropics and polar latitudes. Although this is qualitatively similar to that obtained for the Northern Hemisphere and also to that obtained for the Southern Hemisphere by direct calculation of heating, there are quantitative differences.
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Es werden vorläufige Abschätzungen des durch die mittlere Meridionalzirkulation bewerkstelligten Energiestromes in der Südhemisphäre vorgelegt. Die diabatische Gesamterwärmung wurde durch die Annahme eines Gleichgewichtes zwischen Energiestromdivergenz und Erwärmung erhalten. Die diabatische Erwärmung weist im wesentlichen vier geographische Breitezonen auf: Aufwärmung in den Tropen und in mittleren Breiten, Abkühlung in den Subtropen und in den Polargebieten. Dies entspricht zwar qualitativ den Ergebnissen für die Nordhemisphäre und auch den durch direkte Berechnung der Erwärmung erhaltenen Resultaten für die Südhemisphäre, doch zeigen sich quantitative Unterschiede.
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Brahmananda Rao, V., Bonatti, J.P. On some climatological aspects of the zonally averaged atmosphere in the southern hemisphere. Arch. Met. Geoph. Biocl., Ser. B 30, 87–94 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02323396
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