Sideband instabilities of mixed barotropic/baroclinic waves growing on a midlatitude zonal jet

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 615-631

  Van Der Vaart, Paul C F ^a   Dijkstra, Henk A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULATION; EDDIES; INSTABILITY; WAVES;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; BAROTROPIC INSTABILITY; FLOW MODELLING; JET; JETS;

EID: 0030769692     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869221     Document Type: Article

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