Eady instability of isolated baroclinic jets with meridionally varying tropopause height

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 46-65

  Song, Yucheng ^a   Nakamura, Noboru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EADY INSTABILITY; STRATOSPHERIC INSTRUSIONS; TROPOPAUSE HEIGHT;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; JET; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0034022218     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0046:EIOIBJ>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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