A baroclinic mechanism for the eddy feedback on the zonal index

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 415-422

  Robinson, Walter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC FLOW;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; BAROCLINIC MOTION; BAROTROPIC MOTION; EDDY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ZONAL FLOW;

EID: 0034143875     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<0415:ABMFTE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Bretherton, F. P., 1966: Critical layer instability in baroclinic flows. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 92, 325-345.
2. Edmon, H. J., B. J. Hoskins, and M. E. McIntyre, 1980: Eliassen-Palm cross sections for the troposphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 37, 2600-2616.
3. Feldstein, S., 1998: An observational study of the intraseasonal poleward propagation of zonal mean flow anomalies. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 2516-2529.
4. _, and S. Lee, 1996: Mechanisms of zonal index variability in an aquaplanet GCM. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3541-3555.
5. _, and _, 1998: Is the atmospheric zonal index driven by an eddy feedback? J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3077-3086.
6. Hartmann, D. L., 1995: A PV view of zonal flow vacillation. J. Atmos. Sci., 52, 2561-2576.
7. _, and F. Lo, 1998: Wave-driven zonal flow vacillation in the Southern Hemisphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1303-1315.
8. _, and P. Zuercher. 1998: Response of baroclinic life cycles to barotropic shear. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 297-313.
9. Haynes, P. H., C. J. Marks, M. E. McIntyre, T. G. Shepherd, and K. P. Shine, 1991: On the "downward control" of extratropical diabatic circulations by eddy-induced mean zonal forces. J. Atmos. Sci., 48, 651-678.
10. Holton, J. R., 1992: An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology. 3d ed. Academic Press, 507 pp.
11. Lee, S., and S. B. Feldstein, 1996: Mechanisms of zonal index evolution in a two-layer model. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2232-2246.
12. Robinson, W. A., 1991: The dynamics of the zonal index in a simple model of the atmosphere. Tellus, 43A, 295-305.
13. _, 1994: Eddy feedbacks on the zonal index and eddy-zonal flow interactions induced by zonal flow transience. J. Atmos. Sci., 51, 2553-2562.
14. _. 1996: Does eddy feedback sustain variability in the zonal index? J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3556-3569.
15. _, and J. Qin, 1992: Predictability of the zonal index in a global model. Tellus, 44A, 331-338.
16. Simmons, A. J., and B. J. Hoskins, 1978: The life cycles of some nonlinear baroclinic waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 35, 414-432.
17. Whitaker, J. S., and P. D. Sardeshmukh, 1998: A linear theory of extratropical synoptic eddy statistics. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 237-258.
18. Yu, J. Y., and D. L. Hartmann, 1993: Zonal flow vacillation and eddy forcing in a simple GCM of the atmosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 3244-3259.