Papers in Meteorology and Geophysics
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Print ISSN : 0031-126X
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Effect of Rotation on Convective Motion
H. Arakawa
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1960 Volume 11 Issue 2-4 Pages 191-195

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A simple, preliminary experiment on the effect of rotation on convective motion has been carried out by the method of rotating cylinder convection. Two different regimes of motion, i.e., mushroom regime and tornado regime motion, have been observed. By increasing the rotation (decreasing the Rossby number), the approaching transition of the mushroom regime to the tornado regime motion has been shown by means of two series of photographs.
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