Approximating the equations governing rotating fluid motion: a case study based on a quasi-geostrophic model

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002350zbMath0637.76021MaRDI QIDQ3777582

Andrew A. White

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geophysical fluid dynamicsglobal energy conservationbaroclinic zonal flowsdynamical oceanographyexternal Rossby modefinite-amplitude internal Rossby wave propagationLagrangian potential vorticity conservationlinearized internal free wavesType 1 quasi-geostrophic modelzonal flow stability criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Internal waves for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B55)

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Cites Work

• Practical use of Hamilton's principle
• New equations for nearly geostrophic flow

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