Counter-propagating Rossby waves in the barotropic Rayleigh model of shear instability

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 560, 1999, Pages 2835-2853

  Heifetz, E ^a   Bishop, C H ^b   Alpert, P ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Counter propagating Rossby waves; Normal modes; Shear instability; Vorticity strips

Indexed keywords

JET FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; VORTICITY;

ATMOSPHERIC WAVE; BAROTROPIC MOTION; JET FLOW; ROSSBY WAVE; VORTICITY;

EID: 0033403126     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.56003     Document Type: Article

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