Abstract: A generalized stability theory (GST) analysis of baroclinic shear flow is performed using primitive equations (PEs), and typical synoptic-scale midlatitudinal values of vertical shear and stratification. GST is a comprehensive ...

Abstract: This work continues the generalized stability theory (GST) analysis of baroclinic shear flow in the primitive equations (PE), focusing on the regime in which the mean baroclinic shear and the stratification are of the same ...

Abstract: The linear instability of a piecewise uniform shear flow is classically formulated for nondivergent perturbations on a 2D barotropic mean flow with linear shear, bounded on both sides by semi-infinite half-planes where the ...

Abstract: arotropic eddy fluxes are analyzed through a geometric decomposition of the eddy stress tensor. Specifically, the geometry of the eddy variance ellipse, a two-dimensional visualization of the stress tensor describing the ...