Explosive instability of geostrophic vortices. I: Baroclinic instability

DOI10.1007/S00162-009-0140-7MaRDI QIDQ983582zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xavier Carton, Glenn Flierl, Xavier Perrot, Thomas Meunier, M. A. Sokolovskiy

Publication date 24 July 2010

Published in Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00162-009-0140-7

zbMATH Keywords

parametric resonanceinviscid flowsquasi-geostrophic equationsvortex stabilitynormal or singular modes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70) Rotation in hydrodynamic stability (76E07)

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