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A formulation for diagnostic anomaly models

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It is shown that the anomaly model governing the difference between two integrations of the equations of motion can be written in a form that is formally linear in the anomalies, by choosing the basic state to be the mean of the results of the two integrations.

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Schneider, E.K. A formulation for diagnostic anomaly models. PAGEOPH 126, 137–140 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00876919

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