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Charney-stern Criterion

The Charney-Stern Criterion is a theoretical condition in geophysical fluid dynamics that provides a necessary criterion for the onset of barotropic instability in a zonal flow by establishing bounds on the spatial gradients of absolute vorticity, thereby distinguishing stable from unstable configurations in the context of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic motions.

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Charney-stern Theorem

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Potential Vorticity, Easterly Waves, and Eastern Pacific Tropical Cyclogenesis

John Molinari, David J. Knight, Michael Dickinson et al. · Monthly Weather Review · 1997 · 175 citations · Full text

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Momentum Transport by Quasi-Geostrophic Eddies

Isaac M. Held · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1975 · 161 citations · Full text

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Generation of African Easterly Wave Disturbances: Relationship to the African Easterly Jet

Jen-Shan Hsieh, Kerry H. Cook · Monthly Weather Review · 2005 · 127 citations

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Baroclinic Instability of Easterly Jets with Applications to the Summer Mesosphere

L. Pfister · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1985 · 113 citations

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Potential Vorticity Modeling of the ITCZ and the Hadley Circulation

Wayne H. Schubert, Paul E. Ciesielski, Duane E. Stevens et al. · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1991 · 92 citations · Full text

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    T. E. Dowling

    University of Louisville, United States

    3 publications · 56 citations

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    Theodore G. Shepherd

    University of Toronto, Canada

    3 publications · 103 citations

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  3. WH
    Wayne H. Schubert

    Colorado State University, United States

    2 publications · 103 citations

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  4. RS
    Richard S. Lindzen

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

    2 publications · 35 citations

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  5. SS
    Steven Skubis

    University at Albany, State University of New York, United States

    1 publications · 175 citations

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    109 citations

  2. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    494 citations

  3. University of Louisville

    Louisville, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    33 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

  5. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    49 citations

  6. Texas Tech University

    Lubbock, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  7. NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    126 citations

  8. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

    Socorro, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    11 publications · 620 citations

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  2. Monthly Weather Review

    3 publications · 365 citations

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  3. International Journal of Modern Physics D

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  5. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    1 publications · 39 citations

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