A moist "available enthalpy" norm: definition and comparison with existing "energy" norms
Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
2015-10-21 v2 Fluid Dynamics
Geophysics
Abstract
Moist-air norms and inner-products are currently used in atmospheric science for computing dry or moist singular vectors and for determining forecast errors or sensitivity to observations based on tangent linear and adjoint models. A new moist-air norm is defined starting from old results published in Marquet (QJRMS 1993) and based on the "Available Enthalpy" approach, namely one of the Exergy function defined in general thermodynamics. Some interesting and promising impacts of this new "Available Enthalpy" norm are described in this brief version of a paper to be submitted to the QJRMS.
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@article{arxiv.1503.01652,
title = {A moist "available enthalpy" norm: definition and comparison with existing "energy" norms},
author = {Pascal Marquet and Jean-François Mahfouf},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01652},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures, submitted for a WGNE "Blue Book" publication. Version 2: an extended version, with units in Fig.1 corrected