Linear stability and stable modes of geostrophic fronts

DOI10.1080/03091928308209070MaRDI QIDQ3325310zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nathan Paldor

Publication date 1983

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928308209070

zbMATH Keywords

ageostrophic theoryinertial peaklong trapped modenear-inertialRayleigh integralsmall perturbations of arbitrary wavelengthunbounded geostrophic front of uniform potential vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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Cites work

• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3649136 (Why is no real title available?)

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• Nonlinear waves on a coupled density front
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• The dynamics of long frontal waves in the shallow-water equations
• Reconsideration of Orlanski's instability theory of frontal waves
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