Local baroclinic instability of flow over variable topography

DOI10.1017/S0022112090003615zbMATH Open0715.76028MaRDI QIDQ3201951FDOQ3201951

Authors: Joseph Pedlosky, R. Samelson 

Publication date: 1990

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

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zbMATH Keywords

local instabilitytwo-layer quasi-geostrophic modelcyclone scale disturbancesdeformation radiusLocal baroclinic instabilityLower-layer amplitudesmeridional bottom slopemid-latitude atmospheric flowupper-layer vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

Cites Work

• Baroclinic instability in an eccentric annulus

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• The role of forcing in the local stability of stationary long waves. Part 1. Linear dynamics
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• Baroclinic topographic modons
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• Propagation of barotropic modons over topography
• Finite-amplitude baroclinic instability of a mesoscale gravity current in a channel
• Linear baroclinic and parametric instabilities of boundary currents
• Noise-induced transition in barotropic flow over topography and application to Kuroshio
• Baroclinic instability of three-layer flows Part 1. Linear stability
• The stability of a two-dimensional steady-state flow: Local growth of perturbations
• Baroclinic instability over wavy topography
• Nonlinear Stability of Baroclinic Fronts in a Channel with Variable Topography
• Instability and flow over topography
• Baroclinic instability of axially symmetric flow over sloping bathymetry

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