Vortex formation by unstable oceanic jets

DOI10.1051/proc:1999013zbMath0945.76027OpenAlexW2078571967MaRDI QIDQ4265318

Glenn R. Flierl, Christophe Messager, Xavier Carton

Publication date: 21 October 1999

Published in: ESAIM: Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1051/proc:1999013

zbMATH Keywords

wave breakingplanetary vorticity gradientvortex formationbeta-effectlocalized perturbationtwo-layer quasi-geostrophic modelmixed barotropic-baroclinic instabilitymonochromatic perturbationsthin zonal jet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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