On the stability of ocean overflows

DOI10.1017/S0022112008000827MaRDI QIDQ3514905zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. J. Pratt, Karl R. Helfrich, David A. Leen

Publication date 23 July 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112008000827

zbMATH Keywords

Coriolis parameterRipa stability conditionzero-potential-vorticity approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

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