Geostrophic Wind

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
GW
Pronunciation
/ˌʤioʊˈstrɑfɪk wɪnd/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Geology

Examples in Context

  1. We also investigated how the rolls relate to the surface heat fluxes and the magnitude of the geostrophic wind shear.
  2. Judgement of Geostrophic Wind(GW) Principle and Its Application In Weather Analysis
  3. The surface temperature is considered to be a function of time, while the geostrophic wind is held constant.
  4. The article presents that the supergeostrophic wind of subsynoptic scale low-level jet stream is mainly caused by the isallobaric wind superimposing on the geostrophic wind field.
  5. The calculated results show that the calculated diagnostic wind fields are more similar to climatology than the geostrophic wind fields, especially, in the jet stream area.

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