Rotating gravity currents: small-scale and large-scale laboratory experiments and a geostrophic model

DOI10.1017/S0022112007004739zbMath1111.76334OpenAlexW2029340176MaRDI QIDQ3446123

Peter J. Thomas, Paul Fredrick Linden

Publication date: 14 June 2007

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112007004739

zbMATH Keywords

estuarine fresh-water dischargeslarge-scale Coriolis Facility

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Experimental work for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-05) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05)

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