 Semi-infinite Eady model

A uniformly stratified quasi-geostrophic approximation fluid with constant vertical shear occupies $z>0$, has a flat rigid lower wall, and has decaying perturbations aloft. On an f-plane, the basic interior potential vorticity is constant. Its smooth edge-wave modes have zero interior anomaly and propagate along the lower-boundary buoyancy gradient. The absence of an upper wall removes the pair of interacting edge waves that makes the finite-depth Eady model unstable.