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ageostrophic

ageostrophic adjective: not geostrophic.

Adjective

ageostrophic (not comparable)

  1. Not geostrophic
    • 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).2004, Zhu Xun, Li Xiaofan, Cai Ming, Observation, Theory And Modeling Of Atmospheric Variability, →ISBN, page 13
    • Note that the ageostrophic wind has both a divergent and a nondivergent part.2004, James R. Holton, An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 179

Origin of ageostrophic

From a- + geostrophic.

Questions about ageostrophic

What does ageostrophic mean?
Ageostrophic means not geostrophic.
What part of speech is ageostrophic?
Ageostrophic is an adjective.

Words near ageostrophic in the dictionary

  1. agentships
  2. agentspace
  3. agentspaces
  4. ageometric
  5. ageometrical
  6. ageostrophic
  7. ageostrophy
  8. ageotropic
  9. ageotype
  10. ageotypes
  11. ageplay

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