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Science 26 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5811, pp. 467 - 468
DOI: 10.1126/science.1131375
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Perspectives

ATMOSPHERES:
The Jet-Stream Conundrum

Mark P. Baldwin,1 Peter B. Rhines,2 Huei-Ping Huang,3 Michael E. McIntyre4

Fluid jets occur in Earth's atmosphere and oceans, and on other planets. A new theoretical view of jets has helped reveal why they form and how they interact with the surrounding fluid.

1M. P. Baldwin is at Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA 98009, USA. E-mail: mark{at}nwra.com.

2P. B. Rhines is in the Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. E-mail: rhines{at}ocean.washington.edu.

3H.-P. Huang is at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. E-mail: huei{at}ldeo.columbia.edu.

4M. E. McIntyre is in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK. E-mail: m.e.mcintyre{at}damtp.cam.ac.uk

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