# Browse Dissertations and Theses - Atmospheric Sciences by Contributor "Mak, Mankin"

• (1990)
The first part of this thesis is a study of the dynamics of storm tracks from the perspective of local instability of a class of zonally inhomogeneous basic jet streams. An unstable local mode consists of a group of dominant ...

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• (2005)
In NH winter, the Pacific storm track tends to reach its maximum intensity during early and late winter, leaving a distinct minimum in January, which is known as "midwinter minimum" (MWMIN) of the Pacific storm track. The ...

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• (2010-08-20)
The stratospheric ﬁnal warming is the ﬁnal transition of the zonal winds from wintertime westerlies to summertime easterlies as the solar heating of the high latitude stratosphere increases in the springtime. Recent ...

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• (1993)
We are interested in establishing how the instability properties of the background circulation might be related to the observed intraseasonal variability. We focus on the intraseasonal variability in two Northern Hemispheric ...

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• (1994)
The main objective of this study is to explore the dynamics of storm tracks in the context of a three-layer hemispheric linear-balanced model. We establish first how the instability properties of the relevant background ...

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• (1998)
The dynamical effects of diabatic heating in Northern Hemisphere winter storm tracks are studied in the context of a nonlinear primitive equation model with vertical and horizontal resolution adequate to capture shallow, ...

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• (1989)
The evolution of atmospheric baroclinic waves is investigated by a six-layer forced dissipative quasi-geostrophic $\beta$-plane channel model. In the control run, the model has: (i) a realistic zonal thermal forcing, (ii) ...

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• (1996)
This study is an investigation of the dynamics of the variabilities of the zonal mean atmospheric circulation induced by the variation of the sea surface temperature (SST) and by the nonlinear interaction between unstable ...

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• (2011-08-25)
In this thesis, investigations on gravity waves are conducted in two regions of the middle atmosphere: the lower stratosphere using high-resolution radiosonde at South Pole and the mesopause region using OH airglow ...

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