Note on a baroclinic analogue of vorticity defects in shear

DOI10.1017/S0022112098004005MaRDI QIDQ4262159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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)

Recommendations

• On the instability of geostrophic vortices
• Dynamics of vorticity defects in shear
• Stability of vorticity defects in viscous shear
• Dynamics of vorticity defects in stratified shear flow

Cited in

(2)

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

This page was built for publication: Note on a baroclinic analogue of vorticity defects in shear

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4262159)