Planetary-Scale Mountain Waves

500 mb Height

Sea Level Pressure

Gross-simplification of planetary-scale stationary waves

Ertel’s Potential Vorticity

Conservation of
Potential Vorticity

700 mb Height (Stone 2001)

700 mb Vorticity (Stone 2001)

Held

Held

Manabe and Terpstra (1974)

Slide 12

Slide 13

200 mb Height (Stone 2001)