Abstract: It is argued using simple examples that while free, barotropic Rossby wave critical layers on unbounded stable monotone profiles are difficult to excite with smooth initial data, they are easily excited on stable jets when ...

Abstract: It is shown that the interaction of long, quasi-stationary baroclinic waves with topography can be described by an inhomogeneous Korteweg-deVries equation whose solutions exhibit a variety of phenomena familiar from the ...

Abstract: The problem of long, quasi-geostrophic baroclinic waves interacting with topography is shown to reduce to an inhomogeneous, damped Korteweg-deVries equation. The soliton perturbation theory of Karpman and Maslov (1977, ...

Abstract: By means of a straightforward application of the Laplace transform, a radiation condition for transient Rossby waves is obtained. The condition is exact for linear problems and permits the numerical simulation of laterally ...

Abstract: The asymptotics of the analysis of Dickinson (1970) on the development of a Rossby wave critical level are reexamined. These linear results are used to discuss certain aspects of the development of the nonlinear critical ...

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