Abstract: The stability of a realistic model of the midlatitude tropospheric jet stream is investigated through the application of two different methodologies, namely, by solution of the associated nonseparable linear eigenvalue ...

Abstract: The authors provide a detailed analysis of a shallow mode of subsynoptic-scale baroclinic instability by analyzing a one-dimensional column model in which the assumption of balance is applied to the basic-state flow but ...

Abstract: The banded organization of clouds and zonal winds in the atmospheres of the outer planets has long fascinated observers. Several recent studies in the theory and idealized modeling of geostrophic turbulence have suggested ...