Modulational instability of Rossby and drift waves and generation of zonal jets

DOI10.1017/S0022112010000510zbMath1193.76059arXiv0905.2243MaRDI QIDQ3586975

Balasubramanya T. Nadiga, Colm Connaughton, Brenda Quinn, Sergey V. Nazarenko

Publication date: 1 September 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.2243

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