Strongly nonlinear topographic instability and phase transitions

DOI10.1080/03091928508208780zbMath0584.76051OpenAlexW2033473765WikidataQ67508060 ScholiaQ67508060MaRDI QIDQ3707646

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Publication date: 1985

Published in: Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928508208780

zbMATH Keywords

rotational symmetrysingular limitequilibrium solutionstransition pointregular limitcanonical free energy functionclimatic statesenergy spectra near the critical pointequilibrium eddy energyInitial eastward flowsinitial solid body rotation zonal currents flowinitial zonal currentsinviscid spherical barotropic modellarge amplitude transient wavesnonlinear topographic instabilityRayleigh stability criterionsolid body rotation wind componentstatistical mechanical critical pointWestward solid body rotation flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Absolute and convective instability and stability in hydrodynamic stability (76E15) Meteorology and atmospheric physics (86A10) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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