Baroclinic instability in the summer mes
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A. J. Simmons
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Article
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1977
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Baroclinic instability is examined in idealized models of the summer circulation of the upper stratosphere and mesosphere. For all but possibly the fastest rate of thermal dissipation, results suggest the development of disturbances which have zonal wavelengths around 5000 km and which