On the stability of ocean overflows

DOI10.1017/S0022112008000827zbMath1171.76015MaRDI QIDQ3514905

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

Publication date: 23 July 2008

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

zbMATH Keywords

Coriolis parameter; Ripa stability condition; zero-potential-vorticity approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76E07: Rotation in hydrodynamic stability

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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