Approximating the equations governing rotating fluid motion: a case study based on a quasi-geostrophic model

DOI10.1017/S0022112087002350zbMath0637.76021MaRDI QIDQ3777582

Andrew A. White

Publication date: 1987

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

zbMATH Keywords

geophysical fluid dynamicsglobal energy conservationbaroclinic zonal flowsdynamical oceanographyexternal Rossby modefinite-amplitude internal Rossby wave propagationLagrangian potential vorticity conservationlinearized internal free wavesType 1 quasi-geostrophic modelzonal flow stability criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Related Items (2)

New exact solutions of Burgers’s equation—an extension to the direct method of Clarkson and Kruskal ⋮ Plesio-geostrophy for Earth’s core: I. Basic equations, inertial modes and induction

Cites Work

• Practical use of Hamilton's principle
• New equations for nearly geostrophic flow

This page was built for publication: Approximating the equations governing rotating fluid motion: a case study based on a quasi-geostrophic model