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Low frequency oscillations of the atmosphere with periods of 30-60 days have been discovered in Tropics and later in the Northern Hemisphere (Madden & Julian, 1971; Anderson & Rosen, 1983). This phenomenon has been addressed by many investigators in attempts to clarify the physics behind it. A related and even broader issue is the low-frequency variability (LFV) of the Earth’s atmosphere which is frequently associated with the existence of multiple, systematically recurring, persistent states observed in the real atmosphere (Mo & Ghil, 1988; Yang & Reinhold, 1991; etc.).
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Sazonov, I.A., Danilov, S.D., Chernous’ko, Y.L., Kochina, V.G. (2001). Oscillatory Regimes of Forced Zonal Flow. In: Hodnett, P.F. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0792-4_30
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