Vorticity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field. countable, uncountable

    "It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally)."

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"It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally)."

Etymology

From vortex + -ity.

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potential vorticity

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