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The winter simulations of the GLAS climate model and the NCAR community climate model are used to examine the maintenance of the atmospheric kinetic energy. It is found that the kinetic energy is generated in the lower latitudes south of the maximum westerlies, transported northward and then, destroyed in the midlatitudes north of the maximum westerlies. Therefore, the atmospheric kinetic energy is maintained by the counterbalance between the divergence (convergence) of kinetic energy flux and generation (destruction) of kinetic energy in lower (middle) latitudes.
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Chen, TC., Lee, YH. A note on the maintenance of the atmospheric kinetic energy. PAGEOPH 120, 642–647 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00876649
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00876649