a) What is the dynamical quantity known as potential vorticity? b) What are the three components of potential vorticity? c) Explain two possible ways in which a water column, originally not rotating, would adjust to conserve potential vorticity in the Northern Hemisphere if it is moved southward.

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a) What is the dynamical quantity known as potential vorticity?
b) What are the three components of potential vorticity?
c) Explain two possible ways in which a water column, originally not rotating, would adjust to
conserve potential vorticity in the Northern Hemisphere if it is moved southward.
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