Barotropic instability of a zonal jet on the sphere: from non-divergence through quasi-geostrophy to shallow water

DOI10.1080/03091929.2020.1724996MaRDI QIDQ5065735zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nathan Paldor, Ofer Shamir, Chaim. I. Garfinkel

Publication date 22 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03091929.2020.1724996

zbMATH Keywords

shear instabilitybarotropic instabilityspherical shallow water equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Geophysical flows (76U60)

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Cited in

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• Non-divergent 2D vorticity dynamics and the shallow water equations on the rotating earth
• Poleward propagation of near-inertial waves induced by fluctuating winds over a baroclinically unstable zonal jet
• Balance regimes for the stability of a jet in anf-plane shallow water system
• Monopoles in a uniform zonal flow on a quasi-geostrophic -plane: effects of the Galilean non-invariance of the rotating shallow-water equations

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• Matlab

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