Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents

DOI10.1017/S0022112082001669MaRDI QIDQ3948752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. W. Griffiths, Peter Killworth, Melvin E. Stern

Publication date 1982

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082001669

zbMATH Keywords

gravity currentsbounded by free streamlinesno extremum or gradient in potential vorticity profilequasi-geostrophic modelssharp density frontsunstable to linearized perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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• Long-wave instability of an isolated front
• On the baroclinic instability of cold-core coupled density fronts on a sloping continental shelf
• Bifurcation of traveling waves resulting from resonant mode crossings in oceanic currents
• On an eigenvalue problem arising in the study of the stability of ocean currents
• Linear and nonlinear barotropic instability of geostrophic shear layers
• On the stability of ocean overflows
• Instabilities of coupled density fronts and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow-water model: influence of the lower layer and of the topography
• Ageostrophic, anticyclonic instability of a geostrophic, barotropic boundary current
• Dynamics of ventilated coherent cold eddies on a sloping bottom
• Stability of rotating shear flows in shallow water
• Instabilities of buoyancy-driven coastal currents and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow-water model. I: Passive lower layer
• Instabilities on density-driven boundary currents and fronts
• Linear stability and stable modes of geostrophic fronts
• Instability of coupled geostrophic density fronts and its nonlinear evolution
• Coherent baroclinic eddies on a sloping bottom
• On the instability of geostrophic vortices
• Stable and unstable shear modes of rotating parallel flows in shallow water
• Nonlinear waves on a coupled density front
• Finite-amplitude baroclinic instability of a mesoscale gravity current in a channel
• Frontal waves in a strait
• Nonlinear Stability of Baroclinic Fronts in a Channel with Variable Topography
• A model equation for nonlinear wavelength selection and amplitude evolution of frontal waves

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