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Research article
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25 Jul 2017
Research article |
| 25 Jul 2017
Insights into the three-dimensional Lagrangian geometry of the Antarctic polar vortex
Jezabel Curbelo
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM. C/ Nicolás Cabrera 15, Campus de Cantoblanco UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autonóma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Víctor José García-Garrido
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM. C/ Nicolás Cabrera 15, Campus de Cantoblanco UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Carlos Roberto Mechoso
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM. C/ Nicolás Cabrera 15, Campus de Cantoblanco UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Stephen Wiggins
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TW, UK
Coumba Niang
Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM. C/ Nicolás Cabrera 15, Campus de Cantoblanco UAM, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphere et de l'Ocean Simeon Fongang, Ecole Superieure Polytechnique, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, 5085, Dakar-Fann, Senegal
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Short summary
Lagrangian coherent structures have supported the description of transport processes in fluid dynamics. In this work we use the M function to provide new insights into the 3-D Lagrangian structure of the southern stratosphere. Dynamical systems concepts appropriate to 3-D, such as normally hyperbolic invariant curves, are discussed and applied to describe the vertical extension of the stratospheric polar vortex and its evolution.
Lagrangian coherent structures have supported the description of transport processes in fluid...
