Coherent baroclinic eddies on a sloping bottom

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002519zbMath0636.76119MaRDI QIDQ3777736

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Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

sloping bottomrotating fluidTaylor columncyclonic vortexdome of salt waterstable baroclinic eddy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

Related Items (5)

Experiments on turbulent convection over a rotating continental shelf–slope ⋮ On the baroclinic instability of cold-core coupled density fronts on a sloping continental shelf ⋮ Dynamics of ventilated coherent cold eddies on a sloping bottom ⋮ Finite-amplitude baroclinic instability of a mesoscale gravity current in a channel ⋮ On the collision between deep anticyclones and seamounts

Cites Work

• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
• Some remarks on the initiation of inertial Taylor columns
• Inertial Taylor columns on a beta plane
• On the stratified Taylor column

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