Laboratory, Theretical and Numerical Experiments on the Effects of Topography and the B=effect on Baroclinic Flows

在这个奖项下，Pfeffer博士和他的同事将扩大 他们以前关于地形影响的研究成果 和β（科里奥利加速度）对大气流动的影响 混合实验室实验与旋转环， 理论和数值模拟研究。 初步研究 这个和其他小组认为，地形可以影响 速度的纬向流，位置和维护大 大气流动中的尺度驻波（阻塞 现象），以及有助于混沌的行为， 气氛 对于正在调查的每个领域， 实验室结果将有助于激励和启动 数值实验验证了模型和理论 结果 普费弗博士和他的团队是为数不多的 实验室项目仍然存在， 国家 他们的研究提供了一个重要而独特的 对理解流体的观点和贡献， 特别是大气流动。

Under this award, Dr. Pfeffer and his colleagues will extend the results of their previous work on the effects of topography and beta (Coriolis acceleration) on atmospheric flows through a mix of laboratory experiments with a rotating annulus and theoretical and numerical modeling studies. Preliminary studies by this and other groups suggest that topography can affect the speed of the zonal flow, the location and maintenance of large scale standing waves in the atmospheric flow (blocking phenomenon), as well as contribute to the chaotic behavior of the atmosphere. For each of the areas under investigation, the laboratory results will serve to motivate and initialize numerical experiments and to verify the model and theoretical results. Dr. Pfeffer and his group represent one of the few experimental laboratory programs still in existence in this country. Their research provides an important and unique perspective on and contribution to understanding fluid, and in particular atmospheric, flows.