Jet Stream A jet stream or jet is
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Jet Stream A jet stream (or jet) is a narrow current of strong winds. Can exist at several levels, but most often applied to the high velocity winds in the vicinity of the midlatitude tropopause
Midlatitude Jet Stream Facts • Can reach 250 mph (or more) • Centered on the upper troposphere…around 250 h. Pa • Stronger in winter. Generally, weakens and moves northward during summer. • Closely associated with a tropospheric temperature gradient (thermal wind!) • Not uniform zonally
Wasaburo Oishi, Japanese Discoverer (1920 s)
Fu-Go Balloon Weapon During WWII
Strahlstromung (German) for “jet stream” first used in 1939 • Big effects on bomber flights during WWII
Jet Stream winds are not uniform
250 mb isotach
Shaded 70— 110 knot
Jet Stream versus Jet Streak A matter of size Term ”jet stream” used for features of 1000’s of km. ”Jet streak” use for features of 100’s to 1000 km Note that air blow through the jet streak isotachs…the feature propagates more slowly than the strongest winds.
Main Upper Tropospheric Jets Closely Associated with the Tropopause
Tropopause
General Definition • Tropopause: a boundary region or surface between the troposphere and stratosphere • Marked by a change in lapse rate from a typical tropospheric lapse rate (~6. 5 C per km) to isothermal or inversion conditions. • Sometimes hard to find, particularly near jet cores. • Can multiple tropopauses above a location • Lower in polar region than in the tropics.
Official WMO Definition • “the point on the soundings where the lapse rate becomes less than 2 C per km and remains less than that for a least 2 km”
Finding the Tropopause
Real World Examples: http: //weather. uwyo. edu/upperair/sounding. html
Tropopause is modulated synoptically • High in ridges, Low in troughs • Higher in tropics, lower towards poles
Tropopause Height https: //atmos. washington. edu/~ha kim/tropo/trop_pres. html
There are TWO types of upper tropospheric jet streams • Polar front jet: associated with main midlatitude frontal/baroclinic zone. Typically 30 -45 N, ~250 -300 h. Pa • Subtropical jet: associated with the northern portion of the tropical Hadley circulation. Typically around 30 N, ~200 h. Pa
Subtropical Jet Stream
Subtropical Jet Stream Often Associated with a cloud band
• http: //itg 1. meteor. wisc. edu/wxwise/Ackerman. Knox/chap 7/subtropical_jet. html
Jet Stream’s Relationship to Temperature Is Expressed Through Thermal Wind Arguments
Thermal Wind Equation
250 mb isotach
1000 -500 mb thickness-large thickness gradient and thus thermal wind near jet core
Or alternatively…
The Jet Stream Recall the horizontal temperature effects on the pressure: 500 mb 700 mb 850 mb Warm Cold Psurface
The Jet Stream Consider the balance of forces at each level: Co PGF 500 mb 700 mb 850 mb Warm Cold Ps
The Midlatitude Jet Stream is not uniform, which has to do with non-uniform temperature
Where are largest temperature gradients?
The thermal wind equation is a diagnostic equation, something needs to supply the momentum for the jets • The polar or midlatitude jet is often called the “eddy driven jet” because the convergence of momentum by eddies (storms) is important. • The subtropical jet is associated with Coriolis force acceleration of northerly branch of the subtropical jet.
There a variety of jet stream configurations that are wellknown
Horizontal cuts through the troposphere, jet, and stratosphere • Reversal of horizontal temperature gradient between troposphere and stratosphere • Tropopause break at jet.
850 h. Pa
700 h. Pa
500 h. Pa
250 h. Pa
100 h. Pa
Why is the jet stream typically located at the tropopause?
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