The influence of the horizontal component of Earth's angular velocity on the instability of the Ekman layer
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Publication:3742964
DOI10.1017/S0022112085000039zbMath0605.76057MaRDI QIDQ3742964
Sidney Leibovich, Sanjiva K. Lele
Publication date: 1985
Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Coriolis accelerationatmospheric Ekman layeroceanic boundary layergeostrophic flowlaminar barotropic Ekman layerlinear, normal mode stability characteristicssurface-current compass
Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)
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