On the role of dissipation in the finite amplitude interactions between forced and free baroclinic waves

DOI10.1080/03091928908208895zbMath0665.76019OpenAlexW1992712444MaRDI QIDQ3817943

Terrence R. Nathan

Publication date: 1989

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03091928908208895

zbMATH Keywords

multiple time scalesweakly nonlinear interactionsEkman dissipationbaroclinic wavemidlatitude beta plane channelquasigeostrophic, two-layer modelresonant topographic wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Water waves, gravity waves; dispersion and scattering, nonlinear interaction (76B15) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

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