Local baroclinic instability of flow over variable topography

DOI10.1017/S0022112090003615zbMath0715.76028MaRDI QIDQ3201951

Joseph Pedlosky, Roger M. Samelson

Publication date: 1990

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

zbMATH Keywords

local instabilitytwo-layer quasi-geostrophic modelcyclone scale disturbancesdeformation radiusLocal baroclinic instabilityLower-layer amplitudesmeridional bottom slopemid-latitude atmospheric flowupper-layer vorticity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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Cites Work

• Baroclinic instability in an eccentric annulus

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