Ageostrophic, anticyclonic instability of a geostrophic, barotropic boundary current

DOI10.1063/1.1785132zbMATH Open1187.76340OpenAlexW1990387161MaRDI QIDQ3554655FDOQ3554655

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

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

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

Cited In (7)

• 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
• Ageostrophic instability in a rotating stratified interior jet
• Ageostrophic instability in rotating shallow water
• On the Instabilities and Transitions of the Western Boundary Current

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