Baroclinic instability of Kirchhoff's elliptic vortex

DOI10.1017/S0022112094000339zbMath0812.76031MaRDI QIDQ4304676

T. Miyazaki, Hideshi Hanazaki

Publication date: 31 August 1994

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

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-geostrophic \(f\)-plane approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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