Abstract: Internal waves propagating through a dissipative fluid interact with the mean flow. In response to forcing by a single wave, the mean flow evolves to a steady solution. In the presence of two (or more) waves such a solution ...

Abstract: General kinematical arguments are used to derive certain properties of eddy fluxes of conserved quantities in a field of small-amplitude waves. The direction of the eddy flux is related in a simple way to wave transience ...

Abstract: The properties of forced waves in a two-layer baroclinic fluid are considered. The mean shear is taken to be just smaller than the critical value required for baroclinic instability. A nonlinear evolution equation is derived ...

Abstract: The GFDL general circulation/tracer model has been used to generate the transport coefficients required in two-dimensional (zonally averaged) transport formulations. This was done by assuming a flux-gradient relationship ...

Abstract: An experiment is described in which a standing internal wave is forced at the lower boundary of an annulus of salt-stratified water. At sufficiently large forcing amplitudes, the wave motion generates a strong mean azimuthal ...

Abstract: The nonlinear response of a barotropic, nondivergent, spherical flow representative of the upper troposphere (but without a tropical Hadley cell) to localized, extratropical topographic forcing is examined using high-resolution ...

Abstract: Studies of the quasi-two-day wave show that it is a summertime phenomenon. In the summer of 1983?84 at Adelaide (35°S, 138°E), the main phase of the wave appeared as a pulse in mid-January which lasted about seven cycles ...

Abstract: Existing quantitative calculations of material transport across the stratospheric polar vortex edge are difficult to interpret. This is because what is actually calculated has not been clearly shown to be irreversible ...

Abstract: Detailed studies of the azimuthal structure of fully developed waves in a differentially heated rotating fluid annulus have been carried out with the aid of instrumentation capable of providing frequent determinations of ...