Counterpropagating Rossby waves and barotropic instability

A novel attempt is made to quantify the qualitative interpretation of barotropic instability in terms of counterpropagating Rosssby waves (CRW) as proposed by Hoskins et al. (1985). Although many investigations have been devoted to this quantification in the past, a minimum resolution grid point mod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joseph Egger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Borntraeger 2007-10-01
Series:Meteorologische Zeitschrift
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0239