Nonlinear stability of continuously stratified quasi-geostrophic flow

DOI10.1017/S002211209600818XzbMath0883.76042MaRDI QIDQ4354524

Theodore G. Shepherd, Mu Mu, Yong-Ming Liu

Publication date: 17 September 1997

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

zbMATH Keywords

Lyapunov stability; hydrostatic compressibility; Arnol'd's second stability theorem; disturbance potential enstrophy; modified quasi-geostrophic model; standard quasi-geostrophic model; upper bounds on disturbance energy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

86A10: Meteorology and atmospheric physics

76V05: Reaction effects in flows

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