Abstract: The nonlinear dynamics of a slightly unstable baroclinic wave is studied for a two-layer f-plane system in which the basic flow is strongly sheared in the horizontal direction. The basic flow is purely baroclinic, i.e., ...

Abstract: The effect of three different parameterizations of dissipation on the nonlinear dynamics of unstable baroclinic waves is studied. The model is the two-layer f-plane model and the dynamics is quasigeostrophic. The dissipation ...

Abstract: In this study, the relation between the interior and the surface dynamics for nonlinear baroclinically unstable flows is examined using the concepts of potential vorticity. First, it is demonstrated that baroclinic unstable ...

Abstract: The dynamics of the mixed layer in the presence of an embedded geostrophic jet has been investigated using a simple 1½-layer model and a two-dimensional primitive equation model. The jet vorticity induces a spatial variability ...

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Abstract: In high-eddy-energy regions, it is generally assumed that sea level wavenumber spectra compare well with quasigeostrophic (QG) turbulence models and that spectral slopes are close to the expected k?5 law. This issue is ...

Abstract: n Ocean System Simulation Experiment is used to quantify the observing capability of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission and its contribution to higher-quality reconstructed sea level anomaly (SLA) fields ...

Abstract: n this study, the authors first show that it is difficult to reconstruct the vertical structure of vortices using only surface observations. In particular, they show that the recent surface quasigeostrophy (SQG) and interior ...

Abstract: his paper presents an overview of the Lower Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment (LABLE), which included two measurement campaigns conducted at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Southern Great Plains ...

Abstract: AbstractA grand challenge from the wind energy industry is to provide reliable forecasts on mountain winds several hours in advance at microscale (?100 m) resolution. This requires better microscale wind-energy physics ...