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Baroclinic Instability

Baroclinic Instability is a fundamental instability mechanism in atmospheric dynamics whereby horizontal temperature gradients in a rotating, stratified fluid system extract available potential energy to generate transient eddies and large-scale weather systems, distinguishing it from other instabilities by its dependence on the misalignment of pressure and density surfaces.

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GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS

Joseph Smagorinsky · Monthly Weather Review · 1963 · 13.8K citations

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Open‐ocean convection: Observations, theory, and models

John Marshall, Friedrich Schott · Reviews of Geophysics · 1999 · 1.3K citations

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THE DYNAMICS OF LONG WAVES IN A BAROCLINIC WESTERLY CURRENT

J. G. Charney · Journal of Meteorology · 1947 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming

Jian Lu, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Thomas Reichler · Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · 1.2K citations

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On the Existence of Storm-Tracks

Brian J. Hoskins, Paul J. Valdes · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1990 · 927 citations

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