Nonlinear Saturation of Vertically Propagating Rossby Waves

The interaction between vertical Rossby wave propagation and wave breaking is studied in the idealized context of a beta-plane channel model. Considering the problem of propagation through a uniform zonal flow in an exponentially stratified fluid, where linear theory predicts exponential wave growth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Giannitsis, Constantine, Lindzen, Richard Siegmund
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52094
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7520-7028