Abstract: A simple multiple-scale expansion procedure is given for calculating corrections to the structure of equatorial planetary waves in the presence of weak shear and dissipation. For upward-propapting Rossby-gravity (Yanai-Maruyama) ...

Abstract: Using a new generalization of the Eliassen-Palm relations, we discuss the zonal-mean-flow tendency ??/?t due to waves in a stratified, rotating atmosphere, with particular attention to equatorially trapped modes. Wave ...

Abstract: During the final stages of the formation of fronts, semi-geostrophic theory predicts kinetic and available potential energy spectra that closely approximate a ?8/3 power law as a function of horizontal wavenumber.

Abstract: The theorems, which exhibit the role of wave dissipation, excitation and transience in the forcing of mean flow changes of second order in wave amplitude by arbitrary, small-amplitude disturbances, are obtained 1) for the ...

Abstract: The Eliassen-Palm flux is important in analytical studies of small-amplitude waves where it provides a powerful and elegant tool for the description of wave propagation in mean zonal shear flows, as well as for analysis ...

Abstract: Dynamical fields based on temperature measurements from the Improved Stratospheric and Mesospheric Sounder on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite are presented for the Northern Hemisphere stratosphere for the period ...