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Any investigation of the dynamical behavior of fluid flow on the mesoscale should involve a thorough study of mesoscale instabilities. Symmetric instability is one of only a very few instabilities which are known to have distinctly mesoscale characteristics. The physical nature of the instability and the conditions under which it may occur are described in this chapter.
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Emanuel, K.A. (1983). Symmetric Instability. In: Lilly, D.K., Gal-Chen, T. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology — Theories, Observations and Models. NATO ASI Series, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2241-4_11
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