Your on a high speed train and want to visit the buffet. It's on a
100+mph stretch of the East Coast mainline

Much more turbulence on thhe west coast line ;-).
For the state of the art on jet streak dynamics see-
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/...et_streak.html
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/~sdirren/my_h...iences/Rossby/
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~hakim/pubs.html
on PV dynamics-
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~sws98slg/midlatdyn.html

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regards,
david
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