Note on a baroclinic analogue of vorticity defects in shear

DOI10.1017/S0022112098004005zbMATH Open0934.76025OpenAlexW1972278314MaRDI QIDQ4262159FDOQ4262159

Authors: R. Samelson 

Publication date: 13 April 2000

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112098004005

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zbMATH Keywords

linear instabilitybaroclinic quasi-geostrophic flowlinear baroclinic problempotential vorticity defect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10)

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• Baroclinic vortex sheet production by shocks and expansion waves
• Self-consistent chaotic transport in fluids and plasmas

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