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In Chapter 5 we introduced the concept of circulation and vorticity and we discovered the baroclinic atmosphere and the “production of vorticity”. In Chapter 6 we saw that even the thermal wind can be obtained as a consequence of vorticity generation. It looks like the vorticity will be a long-term companion, so it may be worth it to go deeper in to its physical meaning.
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Visconti, G. (2001). The Atmospheric Motions. In: Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04540-4_7
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