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Out of Sections 4.2 through 4.4 emerges a certain view of midlatitude atmospheric circulation. It is dominated by essentially axisymmetric, zonal flow — the prevailing westerlies. They represent the climatological mean of daily flow patterns. The zonal mean flow is baroclinically unstable, and cyclone waves grow on it, reaching finite amplitude and then decaying, to be replaced by new growth of instabilities.
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Ghil, M., Childress, S. (1987). Changing Flow Patterns and Successive Bifurcations. In: Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory, and Climate Dynamics. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 60. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1052-8_5
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