General stability conditions for zonal flows in a one-layer model on the β-plane or the sphere

DOI10.1017/S0022112083000270zbMath0521.76041MaRDI QIDQ3670778

Pedro Ripa

Publication date: 1983

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

zbMATH Keywords

averaging methodtwo-dimensionalpseudo-energybeta-planepseudo- momentumGaussian jetssemi-infinite oceanunbounded ocean

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Shear flows and turbulence (76F10) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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• Shear layer instability of an inviscid compressible fluid