Instability of coupled geostrophic density fronts and its nonlinear evolution

DOI10.1017/S0022112008003145zbMath1151.76486MaRDI QIDQ5302713

Emilie Scherer, Vladimir Zeitlin

Publication date: 8 January 2009

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

86A05: Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography

76U05: General theory of rotating fluids

76E20: Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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