Three-dimensional baroclinic instability of a Hadley cell for small Richardson number

DOI10.1017/S0022112083002499MaRDI QIDQ3680491zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Basil N. Antar, William W. Fowlis

Publication date 1983

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022112083002499

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric instability of baroclinic flowsboundary layereigenvalue problemHadley cellnumerical treatmentRichardson numberthermal diffusionvertical stratificationwavefrontwind shearzonal flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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