Abstract: Previous results based on low- and intermediate-order truncations of the two-layer model suggest the existence of multiple equilibria and/or multiple weather regimes for the extratropical large-scale flow. The importance ...

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Abstract: The concept of baroclinic adjustment is reexamined in the context of a fully nonlinear two-layer model on a ?-plane. Based on our results we propose a single, conceptually very simple mechanism of the nonlinear equilibration ...