Without regard to the seasons, the disturbances on the monthly mean charts lose their kinetic energy constantly through transfer to both the time averaged zonal current and the transient eddies. The loss of the kinetic energy seems to be compensated for by the conversion from the available potential energy of the disturbances in question.
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