In response to a recent challenge to the longstanding practice in modeling large-scale circulations in the atmosphere and ocean that neglects any horizontal component of Earth’s gravity-rotation force, this paper demonstrates that a coordinate transformation into geopotential coordinates has no such horizontal force. This framework should be understood as the justification for and, if warranted, the basis for making further refinements to such geophysical models.

中文翻译：

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位势坐标中没有水平重力


为了应对最近对大气和海洋中大规模环流建模的长期实践的挑战，该实践忽略了地球引力旋转力的任何水平分量，本文证明了坐标转换为位势坐标没有这样的水平力。这个框架应该被理解为进一步完善此类地球物理模型的理由，如果有必要的话，也是进一步改进这些地球物理模型的基础。