A critical layer dominated by non-parallel effects in a rotating barotropic flow

DOI10.1098/rspa.1983.0084zbMath0524.76054OpenAlexW2076671195MaRDI QIDQ3036970

Lee-Or Merkine

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1983.0084

zbMATH Keywords

Reynolds numberRossby numberlarge scaleEkman numberadvection of perturbations vorticitycritical layer of perturbationsnon-parallelity effectsquasi-geostrophic barotropic flowslowly modulating strong rectified currentsvorticity sources

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20) Geophysics (86A99)

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