vorticity

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vorticity

noun vorticities

countable, uncountable A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field. It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).

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@misc{vorticity_2026,
  title = {vorticity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vorticity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}