Ageostrophic, anticyclonic instability of a geostrophic, barotropic boundary current

DOI10.1063/1.1785132zbMath1187.76340OpenAlexW1990387161MaRDI QIDQ3554655

James C. McWilliams, M. Jeroen Molemaker, Irad Yavneh

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/fea652ebd02336c115e395dd472882fc6e2d1e45

zbMATH Keywords

vorticesshear floweigenvalues and eigenfunctionsgeophysical fluid dynamicsflow instabilitystratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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• Non-axisymmetric instability of centrifugally stable stratified Taylor–Couette flow
• Rossby-Kelvin instability: a new type of ageostrophic instability caused by a resonance between Rossby waves and gravity waves
• Ageostrophic instability of ocean currents
• Fluctuation growth and instability associated with a singularity of the balance equations
• The breakdown of large-scale flows in rotating, stratified fluids

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