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One-dimensional radiative-convective models are widely used for studying long-term climate and the influence of various processes (condensation of water vapor, motion of droplets, and their impacts on radiative fluxes, etc.) on the hydrodynamics of the atmosphere. However, long-term prediction of climate is difficult due to the properties of the systems of equations, i.e., a small short-wave perturbation of the basic solution leads to a local sharp increase in the amplitude of perturbation. In this work, a one-dimensional nonstationary model with quasi-hydrostatic approximation is established and the short-wave instability is analyzed for various approximate models with the quasi-hydrostatic approximation.
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The work is supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council, project no. 201306840046.
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Xu, X. On Short-Wave Instability of One-Dimensional Radiative-Convective Models of Atmosphere in Quasi-Hydrostatic Approximation. Moscow Univ. Mech. Bull. 76, 105–110 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S002713302104004X
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