The Open Atmospheric Science Journal
2009, 3 : 147-157Published online 2009 June 18. DOI: 10.2174/1874282300903010147
Publisher ID: TOASCJ-3-147
Planetary-Scale Vortical Structures in the Conducting Atmosphere
Department, Georgian
Technical University, Kostava Street, 77, 0175, Tbilisi, Georgia.
ABSTRACT
The problem of generation and existence of large-scale vortices in the ionosphere is analyzed in this paper. Some exact solutions of the magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations have been found and new invariants have been constructed allowing to descover mechanisms of generation of large-scale vortices and planetary waves in the electroconducting atmosphere under the action of non-conservative Coriolis and Ampere forces.