Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-995-0973-3
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00585-995-0973-3
30 Sep 1995
30 Sep 1995

Acoustic-gravity modons in the atmosphere

L. Stenflo and Y. A. Stepanyants

Abstract. It is shown that the equations governing low-frequency acoustic-gravity waves in a stable stratified atmosphere can have localized dipole-vortex solutions (modons). They propagate in the horizontal direction with a speed that is larger than that of all possible linear internal waves.