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Linear Barotropic Instability

Linear Barotropic Instability is a theoretical framework in geophysical fluid dynamics that characterizes the inherent instability of large-scale atmospheric or oceanic flows on a beta plane under the assumption of no vertical shear, where perturbations grow exponentially due to the interaction between the meridional gradient of the background vorticity and the wave-like disturbances constrained to a single vertical mode.

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The geography of linear baroclinic instability in Earth's oceans

K. Shafer Smith · Journal of Marine Research · 2007 · 258 citations

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The instability of barotropic circular vortices

Peter R. Gent, James C. McWilliams · Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics · 1986 · 144 citations

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Numerical studies of barotropic modons

James C. McWilliams, Glenn R. Flierl, Vitaly D. Larichev · Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans · 1981 · 118 citations

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On the baroclinic instability of cold-core coupled density fronts on a sloping continental shelf

Gordon E. Swaters · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1991 · 90 citations

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Low-Frequency Variability in the Midlatitude Atmosphere Induced by an Oceanic Thermal Front

Yizhak Feliks, Michael Ghil, Eric Simonnet · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 2004 · 88 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. JP
    Joseph Pedlosky

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States

    3 publications · 89 citations

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  2. JC
    James C. McWilliams

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    3 publications · 276 citations

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  3. IM
    Isaac M. Held

    NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, United States

    2 publications · 85 citations

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  4. MA
    Michael A. Spall

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, United States

    2 publications · 49 citations

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  5. SK
    Saroj K. Mishra

    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

    2 publications · 34 citations

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  1. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    500 citations

  2. NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

    Princeton, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    165 citations

  3. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Falmouth, United States

    3 h-index

    7 publications

    216 citations

  4. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Honolulu, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    110 citations

  5. Institute of Oceanology. PP Shirshov Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    168 citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  7. University of KwaZulu-Natal

    Durban, South Africa

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    57 citations

  8. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    148 citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    23 publications · 861 citations

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  2. Journal of Physical Oceanography

    8 publications · 274 citations

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  3. Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    6 publications · 201 citations

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  5. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics

    2 publications · 158 citations

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