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Michael E. McIntyre
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 91
Citations - 18282
Michael E. McIntyre is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Potential vorticity & Stratosphere. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 90 publications receiving 17304 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael E. McIntyre include Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean & National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps
TL;DR: In this article, the Lagrangian conservation principle for potential vorticity and potential temperature is extended to take the lower boundary condition into account, where the total mass under each isentropic surface is specified.
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Stratosphere‐troposphere exchange
James R. Holton,Peter H. Haynes,Michael E. McIntyre,Anne R. Douglass,Richard B. Rood,Leonhard Pfister +5 more
TL;DR: The role of wave-induced forces in the extratropical overworld is discussed in this paper, where the authors focus on the role of waves and eddies in the overworld overworld and show that the global exchange rate is determined by details of near-tropopause phenomena such as penetrative cumulus convection or small-scale mixing associated with upper level fronts and cyclones.
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Planetary Waves in Horizontal and Vertical Shear: The Generalized Eliassen-Palm Relation and the Mean Zonal Acceleration
TL;DR: In this article, a new generalization of the Eliassen-Palm relations is proposed to study the zonal mean-flow tendency ∂ū/∂t due to waves in a stratified, rotating atmosphere with particular attention to equatorially trapped modes.
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On the “Downward Control” of Extratropical Diabatic Circulations by Eddy-Induced Mean Zonal Forces
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a zonally symmetric model of the middle atmosphere subject to a given quasi-steady zonal force F, conceived to be the result of irreversible angular momentum transfer due to the upward propagation and breaking of Rossby and gravity waves together with any other dissipative eddy effects that may be relevant.
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Eliassen-Palm Cross Sections for the Troposphere
TL;DR: In this paper, the Eliassen-Palm (EP) cross sections are used to measure the magnitude of transient and irreversible eddy processes at each height and latitude, and is proportional to the northward flux of quasi-geostrophic (not Ertel's) potential vorticity.