Traditionally, “ eddy feeds zonal flow” in the atmosphere is considered as a result of decaying unstable waves. We show that disturbances made of non-modal solutions -the continuous-spec-trum disturbances-can also e...
Atmospheric disturbances at 300 hPa are decomposed into normal modes, referred as discrete—spectrum disturbances which can propagate freely in the observed zonal mean flow, and non—modal transient disturbances, refe...