The nonlinear evolution of a slowly growing wave on a laterally sheared baroclinic flow

DOI10.1017/S0022112092002179zbMath0756.76023OpenAlexW2086296925MaRDI QIDQ4014071

Michael J. Bell

Publication date: 4 October 1992

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022112092002179

zbMATH Keywords

critical layerpotential vorticityrotating annulusself-advectionweakly unstable inviscid waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Stability and instability of geophysical and astrophysical flows (76E20)

Cites Work

• The Evolution of a Nonlinear Critical Level
• How rapidly is a passive scalar mixed within closed streamlines?
• Do Rossby-wave critical layers absorb, reflect, or over-reflect?
• Nonlinear baroclinic instability of a continuous zonal flow of viscous fluid

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