Explosive instability of geostrophic vortices. I: Baroclinic instability

DOI10.1007/S00162-009-0140-7zbMATH Open1191.76048OpenAlexW4243559347MaRDI QIDQ983582FDOQ983582

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

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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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• On the instability of geostrophic vortices
• Finite-amplitude evolution of two-layer geostrophic vortices

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• Baroclinic instability of two-layer vortices in laboratory experiments
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• On the convective nature of bar instability
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