Abstract: A simple class of barotropic Rossby waves are shown to propagate westward as the graphically balanced meridional windfield periodically reverses in response to a small meridional pressure gradient arising from the latitudinal ...

Abstract: A new diagnostic equation is presented which exhibits many advantages over the conventional forms of the anelastic continuity equation. Scale analysis suggests that use of this ?pseudo-incompressible equation? is justified ...

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Abstract: Expressions are derived for the local pseudomomentum density in two-dimensional compressible stratified flow and are compared with the expressions for pseudomomentum in two-dimensional Boussinesq and anelastic flow derived ...

Abstract: Numerical simulations are examined in order to determine the local mean flow response to the generation, propagation, and breakdown of two-dimensional mountain waves. Realistic and idealized cases are considered, and in ...

Abstract: ecent studies have shown that weak rain shadows in the Cascade Mountains are associated with passing warm fronts, but the specific mechanisms responsible for this connection have eluded consensus. One theory holds that ...

Abstract: It is demonstrated that the inertial oscillation is not produced exclusively by ?inertial forces?, and that the inertial oscillation appears as oscillatory motion even when viewed from a nonrotating frame of reference. The ...