Publication:3917739

zbMath0465.76022MaRDI QIDQ3917739

Susan J. Friedlander

Publication date: 1980

zbMATH Keywords

baroclinic instability; geophysical fluid dynamics; solar heating; non-dimensional parameters; Taylor column; beta-plane approximation; vertical shear layers; spin-up time scale; analogies between rotation and stratification; basic models for the motion of the ocean and atmosphere; Ekman layer equations; formation of cyclone waves; gravity on a fluid of non-uniform density; Gulf stream boundary layer theory; latitudinal variation of solar; small scale problems are excluded; solar spindown controversy; Taylor-Proudman theorems; tea-cup experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

76M45: Asymptotic methods, singular perturbations applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76D10: Boundary-layer theory, separation and reattachment, higher-order effects

86-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to geophysics

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to fluid mechanics

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

86A99: Geophysics

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