Ageostrophic, anticyclonic instability of a geostrophic, barotropic boundary current

DOI10.1063/1.1785132MaRDI QIDQ3554655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James C. McWilliams, M. J. Molemaker, Irad Yavneh

Publication date 22 April 2010

Published in Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/fea652ebd02336c115e395dd472882fc6e2d1e45

zbMATH Keywords

vorticesgeophysical fluid dynamicsshear floweigenvalues and eigenfunctionsflow instabilitystratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

Cites work

• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
• Fluctuation growth and instability associated with a singularity of the balance equations
• Non-axisymmetric instability of centrifugally stable stratified Taylor-Couette flow
• Rossby-Kelvin instability: a new type of ageostrophic instability caused by a resonance between Rossby waves and gravity waves
• The breakdown of large-scale flows in rotating, stratified fluids

Cited in

(8)

• On the Instabilities and Transitions of the Western Boundary Current
• Equilibrium states in homogeneous turbulence with baroclinic instability
• Unbalanced instabilities of rapidly rotating stratified shear flows
• Elliptical instability of a rapidly rotating, strongly stratified fluid
• Characteristic length scales of strongly rotating Boussinesq flow in variable-aspect-ratio domains
• Submesoscale dynamics in the upper Ocean
• Ageostrophic instability in a rotating stratified interior jet
• Ageostrophic instability in rotating shallow water

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