Abstract: A steady, inviscid, vertically sheared flow past a large mountain ridge in a rotating stratified atmosphere is considered. The Boussinesq approximation is employed and the flow is bounded above by a horizontal rigid lid. ...

Abstract: The stability of a stationary baroclinic Rossby wave embedded in a baroclinic zonal flow is investigated in the framework of the two-layer model. This investigation is relevant to the question of mountain-induced cyclogenesis, ...

Abstract: Numerical experiments show that blocking in a barotropic atmosphere can occur as a resonant enhancement of Rossby lee waves forced by two stationary sources of potential vorticity. In particular, if an upstream source of ...

Abstract: Inviscid, steady, stratified rotating flow over a finite, isolated topographic feature is critically analyzed. The formulation is based on approximating the horizontal momentum by the geostrophic momentum. A boundary value ...