Comments on "Instability Theory of Large-Scale Disturbances in the Tropics"
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Chang, C.-P.
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1976-08
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In a recent paper by Kuo (1975), a condition was
used in a CISK parameterization to explain the time
and length scales of the observed mixed Rossby-gravity waves and the Kelvin waves in the tropics. This condition,
as stated by Kuo on p. 2231, is that "the depletion
of moisture through precipitation must be replenished by evaporation from the surface during_ a complete
period of the disturbance." Eq. (lSb) m his paper
specifies this condition as follows:
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1976)033<1667:COTOLS>2.0.CO;2
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Meteorology
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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 33