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Encyclopedia > Meridional

Meridional is a geographic term that means along a north-south direction, or relative to a meridian (opposite: zonal, east-west). In the atmospheric sciences, the meridional coordinate is usually denoted by y, and the meridional component of the wind speed by v.


In a less common and largely obsolete sense, meridional means "of the south" (opposite: septentrional, "of the north").


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Meridional Fluxes (269 words)
As the major gradients are meridional, a zonal integration in 5 latitude bands is presented, that shows the pattern of meridional transport (Figure 3,
The ocean/atmosphere hydrologic cycle accounts for a significant portion of the poleward heat transport on the planet.
As discussed later, ocean data alone can be used to estimate the latent heat component of meridional heat transport, thus permitting the specification of a large part of the total planetary energy budget [ Schmitt and Wijffels, 1993].
Introduction to Physical Oceanography : Chapter 5 - The Oceanic Heat Budget - Meridional Heat Transport (633 words)
The sum of the meridional heat transport by the ocean and atmosphere together is calculated accurately from the divergence of the zonal average of the heat budget measured at the top of the atmosphere by satellites.
Finally, the meridional derivative of the net flux gives the flux divergence, which must be balanced by heat transport in the ocean.
The atmospheric trans-port is subtracted from the total meridional transport calculated from the top-of-the-atmosphere heat flux to obtain the oceanic contribution as a residual (Figure 5.11).
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