The counter-propagating Rossby-wave pers
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E. Heifetz; C. H. Bishop; B. J. Hoskins; J. Methven
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract It is shown that Bretherton's view of baroclinic instability as the interaction of two counterβpropagating Rossby waves (CRWs) can be extended to a general zonal flow and to a general dynamical system based on material conservation of potential vorticity (PV). The two CRWs have zero til