Baroclinic instability of Kirchhoff's elliptic vortex

DOI10.1017/S0022112094000339zbMath0812.76031OpenAlexW2042935697MaRDI QIDQ4304676

Hideshi Hanazaki, T. Miyazaki

Publication date: 31 August 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112094000339

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-geostrophic \(f\)-plane approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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