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A two-level quasi-geostrophic model on a β-plane, with an initial state characterized by an asymmetric zonal current was integrated numerically for a period of 14 days. Various field variables were computed and compared with the corresponding distributions obtained in two experiments with the same model and with initial states characterized by a constant zonal flow and by a flow varying sinusoidally with latitude.
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The research in this report has been sponsored wholly by the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories under Grant AF EOAR 63-108 through the European Office of Aerospace Research (OAR), US Air Force.
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Huss, A. Numerical integration of a quasi-geostrophic atmospheric model with an asymmetric zonal current. PAGEOPH 64, 156–168 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875541
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00875541