English translations of twenty-one of Ertel's papers on geophysical fluid dynamics

Wayne Schubert, Eberhard Ruprecht, Rolf Hertenstein, Rosana Nieto Ferreira, Richard Taft, Christopher Rozoff, Paul Ciesielski, Hung Chi Kuo

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Abstract

This paper contains a collection of English translations of twenty-one of Hans Ertel's papers on geophysical fluid dynamics. The selected papers were originally published between 1942 and 1970 in either German or Spanish. This collection includes the four classic 1942 papers on vorticity and potential vorticity conservation principles and also papers on generalized conservation relations, hydrodynamic commutation formulas, Clebsch and Weber transformations, and isogons and isotachs in two-dimensional flows.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)527-576
Number of pages50
JournalMeteorologische Zeitschrift
Volume13
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2004

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