Stable, baroclinic eddies on Jupiter and Saturn: A laboratory analog and some observational tests
Icarus Elsevier 65:2-3 (1986) 304-334
DISSIPATIVE DESTABILIZATION OF EXTERNAL ROSSBY WAVES.
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 43:4 (1986) 388-396
Abstract:
External Rossby waves in vertical shear can be destabilized by thermal damping. They can also be destabilized by damping of potential vorticity if this damping is larger in the lower than in the upper troposphere. Results are described in detail for Charney's model. Implications for the effects of diabatic heating and mixing due to smaller scale transients on equivalent barotropic stationary or quasi-stationary long waves are discussed. It is pointed out that energy or potential enstrophy budgets may indicate that transients are damping the long waves while, in fact, their presence is destabilizing these waves.Super‐rotation and diffusion of axial angular momentum: I. ‘Speed limits’ for axisymmetric flow in a rotating cylindrical fluid annulus
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley 112:471 (1986) 231-251
Super‐rotation and diffusion of axial angular momentum: II. A review of quasi‐axisymmetric models of planetary atmospheres
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Wiley 112:471 (1986) 253-272
The Effect of Local Baroclinic Instability on Zonal Inhomogeneities of Vorticity and Temperature
Elsevier 29 (1986) 165-182