Instabilities on density-driven boundary currents and fronts

DOI10.1080/03091928208221734MaRDI QIDQ4745481zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Peter Killworth, Melvin E. Stern

Publication date 1982

Published in Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928208221734

zbMATH Keywords

Coriolis forcesshallow watermatched asymptotic expansionscoastal currentsgeostrophiccross- stream breakinghorizontal density differencessmall linearized perturbations around stationary statex- variationy-variation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Cites work

• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
• Geostrophic fronts, bores, breaking and blocking waves

Cited in

(5)

• Long-wave instability of an isolated front
• Instability and nonlinear evolution of a density-driven coastal current with a surface front in a two-layer ocean
• Instabilities of buoyancy-driven coastal currents and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow-water model. I: Passive lower layer
• Nonlinear waves on a coupled density front
• Stable and unstable barotropic shelf waves in a coastal current

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