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The large-scale motion of the earth’s atmosphere is to the first approximation a solid rotation from west to east. Upon this are superimposed a more or less orderly zonal flow in the relative motion and the large-scale disturbances familiar in meteorology. In this article causes for the creation and maintenance of these disturbances will be discussed, excluding, however, the more or less permanent disturbances forced upon the atmosphere because of the earth’s topographic inhomogeneity.
This article is to some extent based upon work performed under contract N6-ori-139, Task Order I between the Office of Naval Research and The Institute for Advanced Study.
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Fjørtoft, R. (1951). Stability Properties of Large-Scale Atmospheric Disturbances. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_38
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