Statistical State Dynamics of Weak Jets in Barotropic Beta-Plane Turbulence

@article{Bakas2017StatisticalSD,
  title={Statistical State Dynamics of Weak Jets in Barotropic Beta-Plane Turbulence},
  author={Nikolaos A. Bakas and Navid C. Constantinou and Petros J. Ioannou},
  journal={Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences},
  year={2017}
}
Zonal jets in a barotropic setup emerge out of homogeneous turbulence through a flow-forming instability of the homogeneous turbulent state (zonostrophic instability), which occurs as the turbulence intensity increases. This has been demonstrated using the statistical state dynamics (SSD) framework with a closure at second order. Furthermore, it was shown that for small supercriticality the flow-forming instability follows Ginzburg–Landau (G–L) dynamics. Here, the SSD framework is used to… 
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