12.810 | Spring 2008 | Graduate

Dynamics of the Atmosphere

Lecture Notes

chapter_10.pdf

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Lecture notes on Chapter 10: Variable Basic States. Topics include WKBJ analysis, critical level behavior, Richardson number, conditions for absorption, linear and nonlinear limits, damping and momentum deposition, violation of the second Eliassen-Palm theorem, and quasi-biennial oscillation.

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