Abstract: In a diagnostic study by expanding global data in normal mode functions, Kasahara and Puri found that for zonal wavenumber one, even the seventh vertical mode (the highest mode they presented) contains about 50% of the ...

Abstract: Adiabatic thermals rising through an environment which has formed a friction layer by rotating in contact with a roughness plate are studied in the laboratory. The effects of frictionally induced motions on the growth of ...