Instability of a geostrophic front and its energetics

DOI10.1080/03091928508245431zbMath0585.76056OpenAlexW1965173672WikidataQ114640441 ScholiaQ114640441MaRDI QIDQ3710206

Atsushi Kubokawa

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928508245431

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointvelocity profilecross-stream component of mass fluxenergy conversionsfrontal trapped wavesgeostrophic surface density frontmean potential vorticitynearly uniform potential vorticityreduced gravity modelsurface front

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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