Homogenization of potential vorticity in planetary gyres

DOI10.1017/S0022112082002250zbMATH Open0497.76032OpenAlexW1979878372MaRDI QIDQ3962665FDOQ3962665

Authors: Peter B. Rhines, W. R. Young 

Publication date: 1982

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112082002250

zbMATH Keywords

geostrophic turbulencePrandtl-Batchelor theoremuniform potential vorticityclosed time-mean streamlines or closed isolines of mean potential vorticitydirect forcing by external stress or heating negligible in comparison with potential-density surfacemean circulation of planetary fluidsplanetary gyreswave-induced potential- vorticity flux

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Forced convection (76R05) Jets and cavities, cavitation, free-streamline theory, water-entry problems, airfoil and hydrofoil theory, sloshing (76B10) Isotropic turbulence; homogeneous turbulence (76F05) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05)

Cites Work

• On steady laminar flow with closed streamlines at large Reynolds number
• A New Class of Nonlinear Waves in Parallel Flows
• On the high Reynolds number flow over a wavy boundary
• On steady recirculating flows

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