Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
DOI10.1017/S0022112082001669zbMATH Open0487.76052OpenAlexW1971884638MaRDI QIDQ3948752FDOQ3948752
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
gravity currentsbounded by free streamlinesno extremum or gradient in potential vorticity profilequasi-geostrophic modelssharp density frontsunstable to linearized perturbations
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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