Instability of coupled geostrophic density fronts and its nonlinear evolution

DOI10.1017/S0022112008003145MaRDI QIDQ5302713zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Emilie Scherer, Vladimir Zeitlin

Publication date 8 January 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112008003145

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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• Instabilities of buoyancy-driven coastal currents and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow water model. Part 2. Active lower layer
• Instability and nonlinear evolution of a density-driven coastal current with a surface front in a two-layer ocean
• The influence of front strength on the development and equilibration of symmetric instability. II: Nonlinear evolution
• Nonlinear development of inertial instability in a barotropic shear
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• On the baroclinic instability of cold-core coupled density fronts on a sloping continental shelf

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