Baroclinic instability of three-layer flows Part 1. Linear stability

DOI10.1017/S0022112088002964MaRDI QIDQ3795387zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors David Smeed

Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112088002964

zbMATH Keywords

long wavesquasi-geostrophic three-layer stratified flowshort wavesthree-layer eddies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel shear flows in hydrodynamic stability (76E05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Reaction effects in flows (76V05)

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