Record Label : tendency_of_eastward_wind_due_to_eliassen_palm_flux_divergence
Record Title : Tendency of Eastward Wind due to Eliassen Palm Flux Divergence
CF Standard Name : tendency_of_eastward_wind_due_to_eliassen_palm_flux_divergence
Record Description : The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). "Eliassen Palm flux" is a widely used vector in the meridional plane, and the divergence of this flux appears as a forcing in the Transformed Eulerian mean formulation of the zonal mean zonal wind equation. Thus, "eastward_wind" here will generally be the zonally averaged eastward wind.
Canonical Units : m s-2
MIP Variable : Tendency of Eastward Wind Due to Eliassen-Palm Flux Divergence