Sub–inertial dynamics of density–driven flows in a continuously stratified fluid on a sloping bottom. II. Isolated eddies and radiating cold domes

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1999.0405zbMath0943.76018OpenAlexW2023003000MaRDI QIDQ4262194

Gordon E. Swaters, Francis J. Poulin

Publication date: 10 September 2000

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1999.0405

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleapproximate solutionsloping bottomphysical oceanographywave dragtopographic Rossby waveanticyclonic circulationbaroclinic bottom-intensified eddiesbottom-trapped cold domecontinuously stratified rotating fluidMory-Stern isolation constraintradially symmetric eddiessub-inertial dynamics of density-driven flowstravelling eddies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography (86A05) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) General theory of rotating fluids (76U05) Stratification effects in inviscid fluids (76B70)

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