Multiple Jets as PV Staircases: The Phillips Effect and the Resilience of Eddy-Transport Barriers

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Enhancement of Mesoscale Eddy Stirring at Steering Levels in the Southern Ocean (2010, background): “(9) The quantity y* is often referred to as the bolus velocity, and is also related to the ‘‘gyroscopic pump’’ described by Dritschel and McIntyre (2008).”
Formation of Jets and Equatorial Superrotation on Jupiter (2008, background): “…absolute vorticity corresponding to maximum prograde jet speed for a given jet width has absolute vorticity +βLs in the northern and −βLs in the southern hemisphere, with a barotropically stable jump at the equator: an absolute vorticity “staircase” (McIntyre 1982; Dritschel and McIntyre 2008).”
Eddy stirring in the Southern Ocean (2011, background): “…where the intensification of mixing along jet flanks is thought to be associated with Rossby wave critical layers [e.g., Haynes and Shuckburgh, 2000a, 2000b], and is seemingly better aligned with the definition of jets as PV jumps in the geophysical literature [e.g., Dritschel and McIntyre, 2008].”
Vortex Preconditioning due to Planetary and Gravity Waves prior to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (2014, background): “5 of McIntyre (1982) [see also Dritschel and McIntyre (2008)].”