The influence of the horizontal component of Earth's angular velocity on the instability of the Ekman layer
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Publication:3742964
DOI10.1017/S0022112085000039zbMath0605.76057MaRDI QIDQ3742964
Sidney Leibovich, Sanjiva K. Lele
Publication date: 1985
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Coriolis acceleration; atmospheric Ekman layer; oceanic boundary layer; geostrophic flow; laminar barotropic Ekman layer; linear, normal mode stability characteristics; surface-current compass
86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography
76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows
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