The nonlinear spin-up of a stratified ocean

DOI10.1080/03091928408222849zbMath0598.76046OpenAlexW2022180494WikidataQ114640527 ScholiaQ114640527MaRDI QIDQ3734038

W. K. Dewar, Peter B. Rhines, William R. Young

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928408222849

zbMATH Keywords

bottom topographybarotropic advection of vortex tube lengtheddy-resolving general circulation modelsforced advection-diffusion equationforced barotropic fluidimpulsively applied wind stressnonlinear, quasigeostrophic, stratified oceanSverdrup transporttilted disk Ekman divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Reaction effects in flows (76V05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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