This resulted in a great deal of wind shear and vorticity, which is the tendency for the atmosphere to spin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leadville Tornado: Rare Funnel Cloud Forms Over Mount Massive] Reference

There, a cold pool has become entrained into a vorticity max.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unthreaded #14 « Climate Audit] Reference

So still a lot of vorticity or spin associated with this storm.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007] Reference

The vorticity of a fluid at a single point is a vector quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference

Left: 500 mb (18,000 feet) heights and vorticity (atmospheric spin) on the left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow threat up, 1 or 2 inches possible tomorrow] Reference

A little bit of vorticity or spin with this system as it's making its way onshore.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007] Reference

A “vortex line” is the tangent to the vorticity vector of a point in the fluid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference

Upper level disturbance or "vorticity maximum" at 500 mb about 18,000 feet at 1 a.m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three possible storms: will any pack a punch?] Reference

MYERS: It gets to get all of the humidity and all the moisture, all of the vorticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2005] Reference

We use the primitive equations, so momentum is the boundary condition, not vorticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

The most important variable is the vertical component of vorticity that is not mentioned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

(I believe this is also what Steve M talks in his analogy of swirls (vorticity) in a boat wake.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit] Reference

Because the earth is rotating, it brings across air from the SH with the worng signed vorticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Holland and Webster Paper « Climate Audit] Reference

Those winds could be indicative of pressure patterns, vorticity, evaporation rate and other factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit] Reference

Thus the vorticity for any boundary conditions for a limited area model at these levels would be nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

Global ozone trends in potential vorticity coordinates using TOMS and GOME intercompared against the Dobson network.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long-term change and variability in ozone levels in the Arctic] Reference

We get one cell that just pops and turns because (INAUDIBLE) way up here so we have a lot of spin or a lot of vorticity with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008] Reference

And the wind vertical component of vorticity is the correct mathematical variable for slowly evolving solutions at all scales of motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anthony Watts at UCAR « Climate Audit] Reference

This will be a chance to illustrate, using satellite images and maps, ideas like ITCZ, wind shear, co-location of vorticity, dry air, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantic Hurricane Track Versions « Climate Audit] Reference

The selected region is situated appropriately to influence cyclonic vorticity and vertical wind shear over the main hurricane track region.    From Wordnik.com.  [YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit] Reference

The 84 hour surface and 500 mb (18,000 ft) height and vorticity (atmospheric spin) for the NAM (top panels) and GFS (bottom panels) are shown below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest on the Tues night-Wed storm threat] Reference

The vertical temperature gradient, plus the speed, direction, and vorticity of the low, mid, and upper-tropospheric flow also figure into the process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Katrina Anniversary « Climate Audit] Reference

The AMO is defined by Knaff and others as being characterized by certain atmospheric conditions moisture, wind shear, vorticity, surface wind velocity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit] Reference

#123 Jerry, small scale vorticity is usually associated with convection, and we can generae convection within a few hours in roughly the right place, even using the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

To correct this “inertial instability” sorry, you have to read Tomas and Webster 1997 the Hadely ciruclation speeds up generating the opposite signed vorticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Holland and Webster Paper « Climate Audit] Reference

In the documentation I could find, there are clearly dissipation terms on both the divergence and vorticity equations in addition to any dealiasing, time filters, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solar Proxies « Climate Audit] Reference

I'm wondering, you're watching these models all day long, you're watching where this vorticity max, as we call it, where this squall line, where the cold front is going.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2005] Reference

Sample of commercially available PV (photovoltatic, not to be confused with PV, potential vorticity) modules.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

Winglets are wing-like tip devices which reduce the vorticity strength and concentration thereby reducing drag.    From Wordnik.com.  [IAGblog] Reference

The surface low will track much farther south while most of the wintry precipitation will be in association to upper level energy vorticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [courierpress.com Stories] Reference

The Spiroid concept featuring a closed contour, carries this trend to its logical conclusion, eliminating concentrated vorticity and further reducing drag.    From Wordnik.com.  [IAGblog] Reference

These clusters are fueled by weak cyclonic vorticity advection in the mid-levels, and the best dynamic lift pushes through Western and Northern New England Monday morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [MATTNOYES.NET - Weather Website & Blog] Reference

I don’t understand the vertical vorticity question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

Do you think models can’t develop a correct vertical vorticity by themselves?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

The strength of the vorticity is proportional to the length of the vortex line” (Fuhs and Shetz 1999, 736).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference

I’m thinking major features like the ITCZ, and the things that characterize it vorticity, periodicity, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference

(depending on air temperature and currents), acquires a vertical vorticity and forms a whirl, or a tornado-like effect of a vertically oriented rotating column of air.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Moscow shrouded in polluting smog as city swelters in record heat wave] Reference

5 minutes ago, -0 / +1mmmmmm laminar flow with no vorticity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference