Extended-geostrophic Hamiltonian models for rotating shallow water motion

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(96)00120-0zbMath0899.76080OpenAlexW2058472184MaRDI QIDQ1816814

J. S. Allen, Darryl D. Holm

Publication date: 28 November 1996

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(96)00120-0

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic energypotential vorticityageostrophic velocityHamiltonian's principlesmall Rossby number expansionsurface height

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Applications of dynamical systems (37N99)

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