Abstract: It is argued using simple examples that while free, barotropic Rossby wave critical layers on unbounded stable monotone profiles are difficult to excite with smooth initial data, they are easily excited on stable jets when ...

Abstract: It has been shown that the linearized equations for disturbances to a parabolic jet on a ? plane, with curvature Un0(y) such that the basic-state absolute vorticity gradient ? ? Un0(y) is zero, ultimately become inconsistent ...

Abstract: The nonlinear reflection of an isolated Rossby wave train at a low-latitude wave-breaking region is contrasted with the more familiar longitudinally periodic case. General theoretical arguments for nonlinear reflection ...

Abstract: Despite the fact that asymmetries in hurricanes, such as spiral rainbands, polygonal eyewalls, and mesovortices, have long been observed in radar and satellite imagery, many aspects of their origin, space?time structure, ...

Abstract: Despite the fact that asymmetries in hurricanes (e.g., spiral rainbands, polygonal eyewalls, and mesovortices) have long been observed in radar and satellite imagery, many aspects of their dynamics remain unsolved, ...

Abstract: A novel statistical technique called space?time empirical normal mode (ST-ENM) is applied in a diagnostic study of the genesis of a secondary eyewall in a simulated hurricane using the nonhydrostatic, high-resolution ...

Abstract: he Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) was a 10-yr, international research program organized by the World Meteorological Organization?s World Weather Research Program. THORPEX was motivated ...