NASA Logo

NTRS

NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server

Back to Results
Baroclinic instability in the presence of barotropic jetsA formalism is developed for the calculation of baroclinic instability for barotropically stable jets. The formalism is applied to jet versions of both the Eady and Charney problems. It is found that jets act to confine instabilities meridionally, thus internally determining meridional wave scales. Once this internally determined meridional scale is taken into account, results correspond plausibly to classical results without a jet. Consideration of the effect of such instabilities on the mean flow shows that they act to concentrate the jet barotropically while simultaneously reducing baroclinicity.
Document ID
19870048214
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Ioannou, Petros
(Hellenic Navy Athens, Greece)
Lindzen, Richard S.
(MIT Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1986
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Volume: 43
ISSN: 0022-4928
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
87A35488
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-525
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF ATM-83-42482
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

Available Downloads

There are no available downloads for this record.
No Preview Available