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East Asia and Western Pacific METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATE

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dominant waves of a local mode are shorter than the dominant wave of a global mode.<br />

These are Rossby waves individually. This is why a local mode travels eastward much<br />

faster than a global mode.<br />

«- (a)<br />

LOCAL MOOES<br />

Fig. £<br />

Variation of the instability properties of the unstable monopole modes with respect to<br />

U 0 for A - 1.5, a ~ 4.0, <strong>and</strong> U T =0,3. (a) Growth rates of the local modes, (b)<br />

Growth rates of the global modes, (c) Frequencies of all the unstable modes.

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