1 „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi, Faculty of Geography and Geology, 700505 Iași, Bd. Carol 20A
DOI:
10.4316/GEOREVIEW.2014.24.1.146
Pages:
30 - 37
Abstract:
This paper aims to be a contribution to the study of the
currents in the upper and middle troposphere over Romania, in the
context of European temperate zone, as the influence of the relief upon
the western predominant influence, under the planetary boundary
layer. Processing database from 19 European aerological stations, two in
Romania, one in the intra-Carpathian area, Cluj-Napoca and one in the
extra-Carpathian area, Bucharest. Romania is situated in the southern
half of the European temperate zone. For this latitudinal area of the
Europe, was selected a west-east profile, from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Dnieper River. Preliminary analysis carried out for a total of just five
years, led to the confirmation of the predominance of western
circulation characteristic of temperate zones, in the middle and
especially in the upper troposphere, but little to counter clearing, of the
backward currents in the upper troposphere, tropopause and lower
stratosphere eastward and northeastward, prospective currents of the
Ferrel Cell circulation model. It was found discontinuous character of
these currents and discontinuous character and increasing of the
dominant western direction together with the altitude. From the forces
acting on the wind direction, west direction was analyzed in correlation
with the altitude and morphology of the relief in the case of the
lower troposphere, where these parameters are important, also in the
middle and upper troposphere was validated the influence of the
Coriolis force.
Keywords:
the Coriolis force, prevailing westerlies, isobaric level, radiosounding