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An argument based upon general principles and a minimum of development is presented to establish the role of nonlinearity in producing the observed saturation of gravity-wave spectra in the middle atmosphere. The complementary role of instability of the nonlinear spectrum is identified. The nonlinear models previously developed are reviewed in the context thus provided.
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Hines, C.O. (1997). Nonlinearity of the saturation spectrum. In: Hamilton, K. (eds) Gravity Wave Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60654-0_16
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