Barotropic vortex pairs on a rotating sphere

DOI10.1017/S0022112097008100zbMath0908.76096OpenAlexW2125135411MaRDI QIDQ4400186

Mark T. DiBattista, Lorenzo M. Polvani

Publication date: 22 March 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112097008100

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium configurationseastward-travelling pairslinear Rossby-Haurwitz wavesrotating backgroundwestward-travelling pairszonal strips of uniform vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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